Python not working in the command line of git bash

Question

Python will not run in git bash  Windows   When I type python in the command line  it takes me to a blank line without saying that it has entered python 2 7 10 like its does in Powershell  It doesn t give me an error message  but python just doesn t run   I have already made sure the environmental variables in PATH included c  python27  What else can I check     A session wherein this issue occurs looks like the following   user hostname MINGW64     type python python is  c Python27 python  user hostname MINGW64     python      sitting there without returning to the prompt

User · Answer

In addition to the answer of  Charles-Duffy  you can use winpty directly without installing downloading anything extra  Just run winpty c  Python27 python exe  The utility winpty exe can be found at Git usr bin  I m using Git for Windows v2 7 1  The prebuilt binaries from  Charles-Duffy is version 0 1 1 according to the file name   while the included one is 0 2 2

User · Answer

I don t see next option in a list of answers  but I can get interactive prompt with  -i  key     python -i Python 3 5 2  v3 5 2 4def2a2901a5  Jun 25 2016  22 18 55  Type  help    copyright    credits  or  license  for more information   gt  gt  gt

User · Answer

I am using MINGW64 via Visual Studio Code on Windows 10 and trying to install node-sass  which requires python2   I followed felixrieseberg windows-build-tools  56 on Github which solved my issue   This is a special case  but I m posting in case someone has the same problem   npm --add-python-to-path  true  --debug install --global windows-build-tools   This installs python and other required build tools to  USERPROFILE   windows-build-tools python27

User · Answer

python exe -i works but got issues in exiting from the interactive mode by sending   Z   CTRL Z   So  seem better to use winpty python exe in Git Bash for Windows  Use   bin directory to make a wrap reference file  like   bin python  which will be accessible everywhere  you may use different version reference like   bin python37    Code inside the file       usr bin env bash   maybe declare env vars here like   export PYTHONHOME  c Users  USERNAME   python Python36   export PATH    PATH   c Users  USERNAME   python Python36     replace  USERNAME     or use     instead of   c Users  USERNAME   if it works winpty  c Users  USERNAME   python Python36 python exe        I just don t like these  magic  aliases which you re always forgetting where it s coming from  and sometimes leads to issues in some cases    Use   bin python file and -i parameter       usr bin env bash if   -z           then       empty args  use interactive mode      c Users  USERNAME   python Python36 python exe -i else      c Users  USERNAME   python Python36 python exe      fi

User · Answer

Just enter this in your git shell on windows -   alias python  winpty python exe   that is all and you are going to have alias to the python executable  Enjoy   P S  For permanent alias addition see below   cd   touch  bashrc   then open  bashrc  add your command from above and save the file  You need to create the file through the console or you cannot save it with the proper name  You also need to restart the shell to apply the change

User · Answer

I know this is an old post  but I just came across this problem on Windows 10 running Python 3 8 5 and Git 2 28 0 windows 1 Somehow I had several different 2 7x versions of Python installed as well  I removed every version of Python  3x and 2x   downloaded the official installer here  installed 3 8 5 fresh  just used the defaults  which installed Python 3 8 5 at this location   C  Users  my username  AppData Local Programs Python Python38  Then to get the command python to work in my git bash shell  I had to manually add the path to Python38 to my path variable following the instructions listed here  This is important to note because on the python installer at the bottom of the first modal that comes up it asks if you want to add the python path to your PATH environment variable  I clicked the checkbox next to this but it didn t actually add the path  hence the need to manually add the path to my PATH environment variable  Now using my gitbash shell I can browse to a directory with a python script in it and just type python theScriptName py and it runs no problem  I wanted to post this because this is all I had to do to get my gitbash shell to allow me to run python scripts  I think there might have been some updates so I didn t need to do any of the other solutions listed here  At any rate  this is another thing to try if you are having issues running python scripts in your gitbash shell on a Windows 10 machine  Enjoy

User · Answer

In addition to  Vitaliy Terziev answer  try touch  bash profile and then add alias into the file

User · Answer

Try python -i instead of python  it s a cursor thing

User · Answer

Have a look at this answer   Git Bash won  39 t run my python files   the path in Git Bash should be set like this   PATH  PATH  c Python27

User · Answer

Type the command PY instead of Python  Invoking the Interpreter  python org

User · Answer

2 workarounds  rather than a solution  In my Git Bash  following command hangs and I don t get the prompt back    python  So I just use    winpty python  As some people have noted above  you can also use    python -i  2020-07-14  Git 2 27 0 has added optional experimental support for pseudo consoles  which allow running Python from the command line   See attached session

User · Answer

You can change target for Git Bash shortcut from    C  Program Files Git git-bash exe  --cd-to-home    to    C  Program Files Git git-cmd exe  --no-cd --command usr bin bash exe -l -i   This is the way ConEmu used to start git bash  version 16   Recent version starts it normally and it s how I got there

User · Answer

type   winpty python  and it will work   gitbash has some issues when running any command that starts with python  this goes for any python manage py commands as well  Always start with  winpty python manage py  At least this is what works for me  Running Windows 10

User · Answer

The one worked for me is as mentioned earlier in these great answers above is the alias as follows   I m using anaconda  so first find where is the python path  then add it into the alias on git bash    1  on anaconda terminal I run  where python  2  on git bash I run  alias python  winpty  C  ProgramData Anaconda3 envs your env name python exe    3  Done  Python is defined inside the git Bash using the alias   Thanks to  Vitaliy Terziev   amp  hygull  for their very helpful answers

User · Answer

Git Bash Workaround- Launch Python 2  amp  Python 3 with aliases  HI  This is  for me  the best solution to run both Python  Python 2 7 and Python 3 x  directly from Git Bash on Win 10    adding aliases into the aliases file that Git Bash uses for      Git Bash aliases file is aliases sh   It is located in       C  path where you installed Git etc profile d aliases sh   1  Open  with a text editor like Atom or other  the aliases sh  for ex  in my case the file is in C  Software Develop Git etc profile d aliases sh  2  Add your alias for Python  In my case the python exe are installed in   C  Networking Network Automation Python 2 7 python exe C  Networking Network Automation Python 3 7 python exe   So you must create 2 aliases  one for Python 2  I named python2  and the other for Python 3  I named just python  Git Bash uses linux file structure so you need to change the     for     and if you have a path like my example Network Automation you put it with       Network Automation   for ex   winpty is the magic command that will call the executable   So add these lines at the beginning of aliases sh  alias python2  winpty C Networking  Network Automation   Python 2 7  python exe  alias python  winpty C Networking  Network Automation   Python 3 7  python exe    3  Add or Modify other aliases  if you want   I modified also the ll alias to show all the files and in a human readable list   alias ll  ls -lah      4  Save the aliases sh file    5  OK    close and relaunch your Git Bash  Now  permanently you could launch both Python directly from Git shell just writting    python   -  launch Python 3    python2  -  launch Python 2    ll      -  enters a ls -lah to quickly show your detailed file list     Cheers  Harry

User · Answer

I am windows 10 user and I have installed GIT in my system by just accepting the defaults   After reading the above answers  I got 2 solutions for my own and these 2 solutions perfectly works on GIT bash and facilitates me to execute Python statements on GIT bash   I am attaching 3 images of my GIT bash terminal  1st with problem and the latter 2 as solutions   PROBLEM - Cursor is just waiting after hitting python command    SOLUTION 1  Execute winpty  lt path-to-python-installation-dir gt  python exe on GIT bash terminal    Note  Do not use C  Users Admin like path style in GIT bash  instead use  C Users Admin   In my case  I executed winpty   C Users SJV Anaconda2 python exe command on GIT bash  Or if you do not know your username then execute winpty   C Users  USERNAME Anaconda2 python exe    SOLUTION 2  Just type python -i and that is it     Thanks

User · Answer

This is a known bug in MSys2  which provides the terminal used by Git Bash  You can work around it by running a Python build without ncurses support  or by using WinPTY  used as follows      To run a Windows console program in mintty or Cygwin sshd  prepend console exe to the command-line     build console exe c  Python27 python exe Python 2 7 2  default  Jun 12 2011  15 08 59   MSC v 1500 32 bit  Intel   on win32 Type  help    copyright    credits  or  license  for more information   gt  gt  gt  10   20 30  gt  gt  gt  exit      The prebuilt binaries for msys are likely to work with Git Bash   Do check whether there s a newer version if significant time has passed since this answer was posted       As of Git for Windows 2 7 1  also try using winpty c Python27 python exe  WinPTY may be included out-of-the-box

User · Answer

if you run a Windows PowerShell command and an error occurs  the error record will be appended to the    automatic variable    named  error  You can use the  error variable to find the errors  in the same PowerShell session  The  Error variable holds a collection of information  and that   s why using  Error 0  can get to your error message objects   Also the  Error 0  variable will hold the last error message encountered until the PowerShell session ends

User · Answer

For python version 3 7 3 in vscode with gitbash as the default terminal I was dealing with this for a while and then followed  Vitaliy Terziev advice of adding the alias to  bashrc but with the following specification   alias python        c Users my user name AppData Local Programs Python Python37 python exe        Notice the combination of single and double quotes because of    my user name    spaces   For me   winpty  couldn t resolve python path in vscode

User · Answer

Another example of this issue is using the AWS Elastic Beanstalk command line interface  awsebcli  eb cli  from the git bash  MINGW64  Mintty  in windows  using git version 2 19 0 windows 1     I m just posting this because it took me a while to end up here  searching for eb-cli specific issues   Commands such as eb init or eb config save  which require user input  appear to cause a freeze hang  In reality I guess the console is not updated with the text requesting user input  Moreover  eb deploy only updates the console text after the command has finished  so I don t get to see progress updates until finished   As mentioned in the git for windows release notes  for v2 19 0  and e g  in Xun Yang s answer  a workaround is to run  winpty eb  lt command gt   instead of just eb  lt command gt    A alternative  as suggested in this git for windows issue  could be to use the windows native console instead of mintty  option during git installation

[python] Python not working in the command line of git bash

Examples related to python

Examples related to windows

Examples related to git

Examples related to command-line

Examples related to git-bash