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  • There are a lot of different versions of parallel out there, do you know which one you have? (parallel --version or man parallel should list it somewhere) Commented Dec 1, 2016 at 9:55
  • It's GNU parallel 20141022 Commented Dec 1, 2016 at 10:12
  • Make sure you do not have a variable PARALLEL set in your environment. Check with echo $PARALLEL. Try preceding your command with PARALLEL= , as in PARALLEL= parallel python3 ... all on one line. Commented Dec 1, 2016 at 18:05
  • Good idea but unfortunately it's not the problem. No environmental variable PARALLEL is set and preceding PARALLEL= leads to the same error message. Can I somehow reinstall parallel? Does it even make sense? Commented Dec 1, 2016 at 18:59