How to open .py on local machine?

Sorry to check the obvious here, but have you navigated first to the directory containing the app.py file?

Jennifer Nordell that just gives me a permission denied

Mikes-MacBook-Pro:~ MikeHansen$ PycharmProjects/zestymemes/app.py -bash: PycharmProjects/zestymemes/app.py: Permission denied

Mike Hansen even using sudo?

No i'm only using the things he's using.

you know i copied all his code and only downloaded all the pip things he told me to :)

sudo is a command (Should be included on your Mac) that means super user do. This allows you to run the app with super user privileges. I highly recommend you take a small detour from python (you don't have to switch tracks) and go through this course here at Treehouse. They'll have you using that command line like a pro in about 225 minutes

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/console-foundations

Since you are trying to run the script directly, have you tried python app.py or python3 app.py (python3 might be installed along with python 2)

To start it directly script needs 1) the line #!/usr/bin/env python at the very first line, and 2) needs to be chmod'ed to be executable. (chmod +x app.py)

Seth how do i use the chmod exactly?

Well Seth i wrote this in the terminal:

os.chmod(#!/usr/vin/env python3, stat.S_IEXEC)

and when i do that it just says:

and when i try to say app.py or python3 app.py etc. it just gives me an error like this: File "<stdin>", line 4 python3 app.py ^

or

python app.py File "<stdin>", line 1 python app.py