run python in terminal

Question

Trying to learn how to run my scripts through Ubuntu's terminal regularly. That being said I am familiar with bash, wget, and awk being called but how do I call python files to run in the terminal? I would like to learn this but I am unsure on where to research it. I have a .pyw file that references several .py files in a folder.

Answer 1

Just prefix the script's filename with python

i.e.:

  python python_file_name.py

Answer 2

python <filename.py>

pyw should run in the same manner, I think. You can also start an interactive console with just

python

Also, you can avoid having to invoke python explicitly by adding a shebang at the top of the script:

#!/usr/bin/env python

... or any number of variations thereof

Answer 3

python <filename>.py

OR

Make sure the first line of your file has #!/usr/bin/env python.

Make it executable - chmod +x <filename>.py.

And run it as ./<filename>.py