Python Issues

jordandhaliwal95
PRO

3 days ago

I keep getting these errors: Starting Container

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found any idea on how to fix it?

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2 Replies

Railway
BOT

3 days ago

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ayush-tibrewal
FREE

3 days ago

It means your container doesn’t have a python executable in its PATH. Here are a few ways to resolve it:

On many modern images (Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine, etc.) the interpreter is named python3 instead of python

Some resources
“command not found Error in Docker Containers”
Covers common causes (missing install, wrong base image) and shows both python3 and update-alternatives fixes. YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURVANt1l0o