Since installing Monterey on my MacBook Pro, I'm no longer able to the use "python" command plus a ".py" custom app in Terminal. I'm using Monterey v.12.6. When I try to run Terminal, I get a "permission denied" when I run python plus the .py app. How to do I restore the use of Terminal?
MacBook Pro
The old python (version 2.7), which has long been deprecated, is no longer included with macOS since version 12.3
You can, however, install Python yourself.
I strongly recommend that you install a more current version - at present it is version 3.10.7.
Get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3107/
The page contains installers for various OS.
Choose the macos installer, of course.
Once installed, quit Terminal if it is running, then start it again and it should work.
The old python (version 2.7), which has long been deprecated, is no longer included with macOS since version 12.3
You can, however, install Python yourself.
I strongly recommend that you install a more current version - at present it is version 3.10.7.
Get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3107/
The page contains installers for various OS.
Choose the macos installer, of course.
Once installed, quit Terminal if it is running, then start it again and it should work.
Your code is not fully compatible with Python 3.
If it is just little matters like this one, it is not hard to fix.
(and it is about time it was updated, too - it has been almost three years since Python 2 was "sunset")
As the error message indicates, print is a function, and as such it needs parentheses.
So, instead of
print fib(int(n))
it should be
print(fib(int(n)))
and likewise for any other print commands in the code - just wrap the arguments in a pair of parentheses.
If there are other issues, let us know.
And if this is not your own code, but someone else's, maybe they have an updated version.
Thanks Luis. With the updated version of Python you recommended, when I run the "fib.py" app, I get the following error:
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DrD@Denniss-MacBook-Pro ~ % python3 /Users/DrD/Documents/Catherine\ LLC/Codes/Code\ Creation/fib.py 1052501
File "/Users/DrD/Documents/Catherine LLC/Codes/Code Creation/fib.py", line 14
print fib(int(n))
Any suggestions?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)?
DrD@Denniss-MacBook-Pro ~ %
I'm very grateful for your helpful recommendations! I'll try to have the custom app updated as you suggest.
unable to use python command in Terminal with Monterey v.12.6
