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Python

Posted by Mike McCarron
Mike McCarron
1,349 Points

Running scripts in workspaces from inside folders?

Thought I would go ahead and organize my Python workspace, so I created folders for each track and dropped the project files in accordingly. This has had some unintended consequences.

Before I was using the following command to run a script from the workspace console.

python filename.py

Now I am getting the following error every time I try.

[Errno 2] No such file or directory

What command do I use to navigate down into the file structure to run a script inside a folder?

Thanks for the help!

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points

Navigating inside a folder is done with the cd (change directory) command.

Here are some examples:

# Navigate to a folder called dir
cd dir

# Navigate back "up" the folder structure
cd ..

It's worth noting though that you can actually run a Python script from a folder without navigating into the folder, by simply specifying the name of the folder followed by a / and then the name of the script.

For example if the folder was named dir and the script was named example.py you could run it with the following command:

python dir/example.py

The console you get access to in the workspace is a locked down version of a Bash shell, which is also what is used on Linux and Mac OS. If you want to learn how to use it properly I would recommend taking a look at the Console Foundations course.

Mike McCarron
Mike McCarron
1,349 Points
Mike McCarron
Mike McCarron
1,349 Points

Thanks for the help andren. I had managed to find an article with instructions on how to use the cd command inside the terminal, but it failed to mention the syntax for a filename with a space in it.

Managed to figure that out after using the dir command as you suggested.