How to run Python script on terminal

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I want to run a Python script in Terminal  but I don t know how  I already have a saved file called gameover py in the directory   User luca Documents python

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You need python installed on your system  Then you can run this in the terminal in the correct directory   python gameover py

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You first must install python  Mac comes with python 2 7 installed to install Python 3 you can follow this tutorial   http   docs python-guide org en latest starting install3 osx     To run the program you can then copy and paste in this code   python  Users luca Documents python gameover py   Or you can go to the directory of the file with cd followed by the folder  When you are in the folder you can then python YourFile py

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You can execute your file by using this   python  Users luca Documents python gameover py   You can also run the file by moving to the path of the file you want to run and typing   python gameover py

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First of all  you need to move to the location of the file you are trying to execute  so in a Terminal   cd   Documents python   Now  you should be able to execute your file   python gameover py

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If you are working with Ubuntu  sometimes you need to run as sudo   For Python2   sudo python gameover py   For Python3   sudo python3 gameover py

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This Depends on what version of python is installed on you system  See below   If You have Python 2   version you have to run this command  python gameover py   But if you have Python 3   version you have to run this command  python3 gameover py   Because for MAC with Python version 3   you will get command not found error   if you run  python gameover py

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Let s say your script is called my script py and you have put it in your Downloads folder   There are many ways of installing Python  but homebrew is the easiest   0  Open Terminal app  1  Install homebrew  by pasting the following text into Terminal app and pressing the Enter key    usr bin ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install     2  Install Python using homebrew  brew install python   3  cd into the directory that contains your Python script  as an example I m using the Downloads  Downloads  folder in your home     folder    cd   Downloads   4  Run the script using the python3 executable  python3 my script py   You can also skip step 3 and give python3 an absolute path instead  python3   Downloads my script py     Instead of typing out that whole thing    Downloads my script py   you can find the  py file in Finder app and just drag it into the Terminal app window which should type out the path for you    If you have spaces or certain other symbols somewhere in your filename you need to enclose the file name in quotes   python3    Downloads some directory with spaces and a filename with a   character py      Note that you need to install it as brew install python but later use the command python3  with a 3 at the end

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