🔒 Error when creating an environment

[chilly girder]

Hi, I am new to python so excuse me for asking self explanatory things. I keep getting a syntax error when I try to create an environment. I have tried many things from tutorials and stack overflow but I am not succeeding in any way.

Thank you in advance.

[idle knot]

@chilly girder

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[carmine parcel]

you accidentally entered the REPL

You need to exit the REPL with exit() and hit enter

the REPL is the one that looks like >>> at the beginning

It allows you to interactively write Python scripts in it without saving to a file

[idle knot]

Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL)

A REPL is an interactive shell where you can execute individual lines of code one at a time, like so:

>>> x = 5
>>> x + 2
7
>>> for i in range(3):
...     print(i)
...
0
1
2
>>>

To enter the REPL, run python (py on Windows) in the command line without any arguments. The >>> or ... at the start of some lines are prompts to enter code, and indicate that you are in the Python REPL. Any other lines show the output of the code.

Trying to execute commands for the command-line (such as pip install xyz) in the REPL will throw an error. To run these commands, exit the REPL first by running exit() and then run the original command.

[chilly girder]

I did that after that how do I type without the file path in the beginning? I cannot delete it in any way. I bet that all of this seem silly to you so thank you for taking the time to answer me 😊 💜

[torpid sleet]

the file path means you're in your terminal. that's exactly where you need to write your command

[carmine parcel]

idk what you mean by file path but if you type that command in one go, you should be able to create you venv properly

i.e. py -m venv myvenv

[torpid sleet]

C:\User\linea>python -m venv lina

[chilly girder]

Ok now I kind of understand it

[chilly girder]

Oh my, it worked

Thank you very very much

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