Google AppEngine's dev_appserver.py failing with "invalid command name 'app.yaml'"

Question

From the AppEngine Standard Environment quick-start, I called,

$ dev_appserver.py app.yaml

which failed then returned,

invalid command name 'app.yaml'

I executed the command in the hello_world directory, which holds,

$ ls -l .
total 24
-rw-r--r--  1 generativist  staff   91 Aug  9 06:43 app.yaml
-rw-r--r--  1 generativist  staff  828 Aug  9 06:43 main.py
-rw-r--r--  1 generativist  staff  791 Aug  9 06:43 main_test.py

Google SDK is installed (I use gcloud daily),

$ which dev_appserver.py
/Users/generativist/.external_repos/google-cloud-sdk/bin/dev_appserver.py

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Doh!

Default Python env on this computer is Anaconda 3.6. Creating a new env with python 2.7 and sourceing it fixed the problem.

Thanks for the effort, Dan.