🔒 How do I fix this error?

[lyric viper]

This error pops up when I open project's console in PyCharm

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (C:/Users/user/PycharmProjects/My:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException```

[balmy crown]

@lyric viper

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[atomic pier]

Hmm, it looks like Pycharm is trying to use a virtual environment that doesn't exist or has missing files

Did you create the virtual environment yourself or let Pycharm manage it?

Either way, I think creating a new virtual environment through Pycharm should fix the issue https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/creating-virtual-environment.html#python_create_virtual_env

[lyric viper]

I deleted my previous project and created a new one. Pycharm made venv himself

Maybe I need to edit .venv/Scripts/activate.ps1?

Also it installs python packages to c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages and not venv

[atomic pier]

That's a script that is automatically created when you make a virtual environment, and the error is saying it doesn't exist. There shouldn't be any need to edit/create the file manually

[atomic pier]

What do you mean by "it", pycharm or pip?

[lyric viper]

pip of course

Guess I will just transfer my files into a new project

It works just fine

[atomic pier]

Do you want to use a virtual environment or are you happy installing any libraries to your system python installation?

It sounds like you just need to reconfigure the interpreter/venv that PyCharm is using because it's trying to use one that doesn't exist

[lyric viper]

Oh it isn't, the name 'My Stuff' makes that error. Strange

[lyric viper]

I am using venv for my projects. This is just one I use for random scripts

For some reason it stopped working

Any other name works fine

[atomic pier]

ahhh, maybe it's because there's a space in the name

[lyric viper]

Yeah I was thinking about it right now

Let me change it

[atomic pier]

Right, sorry for leading you down the wrong path there, I should have realised since it's only highlighted up to "My" here!

[lyric viper]

Now error is gone, I really thought I was able to use spaces in naming things before

Thanks anyway

[atomic pier]

I would have expected PyCharm to support it fine, but yeah, sometimes spaces in paths do cause issues

[lyric viper]

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[balmy crown]

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