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Devam Shroff
Devam Shroff

Reputation: 23

Python3 porting issue

While running a file entitled shuf-new.py in the linux environment, the following command works when I use python 2:

./shuf.py -e bob

However, when I change the first line of my code to #!/usr/bin/python3, I get the following error:

-bash: ./shuf-new.py: /usr/bin/python3: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I'm not sure how to go about solving this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 304

Answers (1)

ForceBru
ForceBru

Reputation: 44838

While adding the shebang #!/usr/bin/python3 is a way of executing your code with Python 3, it's not the only way, and there's no guarantee it will definitely work because Python 3 may be installed in a directory other than /usr/bin.

If Python 3 is installed on your machine (double-check that by trying to run python3 in the shell), you can always run Python 3 code with python3 your_file.py.

If you want to use the shebang approach, use #!/usr/bin/env python3 or find the exact location of the python3 executable using which python3.

Upvotes: 3

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