Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

  • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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    4 months ago

    Ooh thanks! I’ll definitely have a play with this. What’s the step before this? Is it as simple as installing python, putting the code in somefile.py, then running it?

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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      4 months ago

      Yep, if you are running any type of Linux python is already installed.

      I always have a path in my python files to allow for direct running rather than calling python first. This only works on Linux.

      If you put
      #!/usr/bin/env python3
      as the very first line, you can make the file executable and it will just run

      otherwise you will have to call python first, e.g. python yourFile.py

      • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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        4 months ago

        Awesome, thanks! I’ll have a play with this over the weekend.