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How can I clear the interpreter console?

Like most Python developers, I typically keep a console window open with the Python interpreter running to test commands, dir() stuff, help() stuff, etc. Like any console, after a while the visible ...
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Installing pythonstartup file

How do I install the pythonstartup file so that it runs on command like python myfile.py? I tried to install it into my /home/myuser directory for Ubuntu, but it said that I had insufficient ...
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Cannot schedule a python script to run through Windows Task Scheduler

I have set up my windows task scheduler to create a task to run a python script that will send out an email to a few people (including myself). I added the location the location of my Python in the ...
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Python script not running in task scheduler

So I have a python script that is copying a bunch of files between folders. This script runs exactly as intended until I try to use the task scheduler to get it to run at regular intervals. I have run ...
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I scheduled a Python script in Windows Scheduler but the script doesn't work as it should

I have a simple Python script that runs correctly when I launch it in Jupyter Notebook or after I convert it to .exe, but doesn't work when I launch it via Windows Scheduler (I tried to launch both ...
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Python script can't find file when using Windows Task Scheduler

I have a batch file to execute Python and run a Python script that works fine when run manually. But when run using Windows Task Scheduler, the Python Script gives me a traceback because it can't find ...
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How to schedule a script to run at a specified time only on weekdays on Windows 10?

I have tried to run a Python script via the Windows 10 task scheduler but the script will not run: I have double-checked the path to python and to the script. What could be the problem with the task ...
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os.getenv() always returning None

I am trying to work on a bot using Twitter API, in order to hide my credentials I decided to put the four of them in environmental variables and use os module with the method os.getenv() to get them ...
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Python Library to Convert Docx to PDF That Works With Task Scheduler

I am having trouble with converting docx to pdf. I was using 'from win32com import client' which works correctly when I run the program, but now that I have it being run with a windows task scheduler ...
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Windows Task Scheduler and Python - code is good when run manually but issue when scheduled

So I have a script that uses the ArcPy module to create a series of PNGs. In particular I have an image that gets exported with a transparent background. The script runs great when I manually run it ...
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How to run python file in cmd?

I installed the Python 3.4 in C drive. And add Environment variable as C:\Python34. I save a python program in C>users>python>first.py. I open cmd and enter command like this C:\users\python>...
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How can I add project directory to PYTHONPATH

Contents of my project is like this C:/{user_name}/my_project/ │ bar.sh ├─scripts/ │ │ bar.sh │ │ │ └─bar/ │ bar.sh │ └─src/ foo.py and Content of all of bar.sh is python src/foo.py so ...
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tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile crashing in Task Scheduler

I have a Python script that downloads a txt file from an SFTP site, changes the headers, writes a new text file then converts that to CSV. This script runs perfectly in IDLE. I'm trying to set this up ...
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py2exe executing error

I have a dir structure . location of dir is "d:\sources\dir" /dir __init__.py commonlibs/ __init__.py lib1.py lib2.py project1/ ...
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Windows Task Schedule will not run .py file

I have received a ton of errors trying to run my py script via task scheduler. This is on my personal computer and all files are on local drives. The last error I get is The System cannot find the ...
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