🔒 how do i fix python trace back.. im new to this.

[signal stream]

im a newb

[wary bobcat]

@signal stream

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[signal stream]

help me i cant seem to know this python trace back that keeps popping up and instantly crashing.

[primal rain]

a traceback is information about an error that occurred. We would need to see the traceback to be able to troubleshoot it

[signal stream]

here

[final raven]

you should move your file out of system32

[signal stream]

what file?

py?

python?

[final raven]

yes, move your python file out of there

[signal stream]

okay

[final raven]

make a different directory in like your desktops folder or something for python projects

[signal stream]

alr alr

i forgot, where is system 32?

[final raven]

C:\Windows\

[signal crypt]

who told u to place ur file in that folder

[signal stream]

all of the python files?

[signal stream]

no one

[final raven]

just the python files you made. system32 is for core windows files, you really shouldn't be messing around in there

[signal stream]

done

now what

[final raven]

open command prompt, cd to the directory, run py myfile.py

[signal stream]

why does it still say access denied

💀

[final raven]

show a screenshot

[final raven]

you're still in system32

where did you put your python file?

[signal stream]

outside

in a folder

[final raven]

what's the exact path?

[signal stream]

you mean where i put it?

[final raven]

yes

[signal crypt]

you haven't closed that cmd u opened earlier?

[signal stream]

i opened another one

[signal stream]

just in a folder i randomly created

[final raven]

what's the exact path?

[signal stream]

i dont understand lol

the file?

[final raven]

if you started at C:, what folders would you click to get to where your python file is?

[signal stream]

ohh

downloads

[final raven]

for example, if I have a python file in my desktop, I would click on C:, then Users, then robin, then Desktop, so my path would be C:\Users\robin\Desktop

[final raven]

type cd C:\Users\<username>\Downloads

[signal stream]

The system cannot find the file specified.

[final raven]

show a screenshot

[rapid gazelle]

if you rightclick your python file and click properties it will say "location" somewhere in the window

[final raven]

you need to put in your username for <username>

[final raven]

yes this is an easy way to find it

[signal stream]

The system cannot find the file specified

still said it

[final raven]

click on the file in windows explorer. it'll open a right pane showing you the exact location

you can also navigate to the folder where your file is in, and type "cmd" into the search bar

[signal stream]

now what

?

[final raven]

post a screenshot

[signal stream]

here

[final raven]

and your python file is in New Folder? it's called yourfile.py?

[signal stream]

there was no yourfile.py

[final raven]

well, whatever the name of the python file is inside New Folder you should do py <type the name of the python file here>.py

[signal stream]

wait wait wait

you said all of the files of python?

[final raven]

i'm not sure what you mean

[signal stream]

dis one

it got more

alot

i mean

[final raven]

just the one that you made. the other python files might be windows system files

[signal stream]

okay

but it said

The system cannot find the file specified.

bru

do i just reset my pc

like

[final raven]

send a screenshot of windows explorer inside the New Folder

[signal stream]

fully reet

[final raven]

no

[signal stream]

s

[final raven]

there isn't a PC problem, just a misunderstanding of file systems

[signal stream]

oh okay

[final raven]

ermm.. you seem to have moved the python executables themselves ou

well, since py still seems to be working it's probably file. i don't think python interpreters are supposed to be in system32 anyway, so not sure how it got there. what's the python script file you're trying to run here?

[signal stream]

wym by that? does the problem not gonna be fixed?

[rapid gazelle]

it can be fixed but i dont know why ur python is installed so weirdly

[signal stream]

main.py

idk but my freind said to test it

[final raven]

there is no main.py there

[rapid gazelle]

files in system 32 cant be ran without admin which is why u were getting permission denied errors earlier

[signal stream]

ik but there is outside the file

in downloads

[final raven]

you need to navigate to the directory where the python file is and run py <type the name of your python script file here>.py

[signal stream]

wait bro i just realize

[signal stream]

i didn't remove the <>

im so dumb

fuck!

lol

[rapid gazelle]

is it working now? It looks like your trying to run a folder as a python file...

"New folder" is a folder, not a python file

[signal stream]

oh

what do i run then?

[final raven]

i'm having a hard time explaining what to do here since there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of how file systems and terminals work

[signal stream]

real

[final raven]

maybe try giving this a read? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-powershell/

[signal stream]

i just want to fix what my freind sent me lol

[final raven]

maybe just ask him how to fix it

[signal stream]

who?

[final raven]

the person who sent this to you

[signal stream]

he's just a beginner too but he wanted me to test it

[wary bobcat]

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