# Getting passed env: python No such file or directory

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/getting-passed-env-python-no-such-file-or-directory/43875>\
**Category:** Python Help\
**Created:** [January 22, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/getting-passed-env-python-no-such-file-or-directory/43875 "2024-01-22T15:36:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![kknechtel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@kknechtel](https://discuss.python.org/u/kknechtel)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/getting-passed-env-python-no-such-file-or-directory/43875/6 "2024-01-22T23:20:16Z")

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> [@dtd](#):
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> clearly I am not getting my problem across.

Here is a quick guide for explaining the problem clearly:

1. Open a new terminal and use whatever commands are necessary to demonstrate the problem. For example, if we need to see the `PATH` environment variable, then use `echo "$PATH"` or whatever else is appropriate for your system. Since the primary problem occurs when you try to use Python, show a Python command-line invocation that causes the problem - whether that’s just `python`, `python path/to/myscript.py`, directly running an executable script with something like `./myscript.py`, etc. - whatever _actually is required, in your situation_, to cause the problem.

2. **Copy and paste** the relevant part of the terminal session - **both commands and output/errors** - to a new forum post, and [format it the same way as multi-line code, following the explanation in the pinned thread](https://discuss.python.org/t/about-the-python-help-category/42). Make sure that we can see complete error messages, as they are output - _don’t_ try to explain or describe what it says in your own words.

3. If the problem requires specific code in a specific Python file, then show that as well - label each file with its name (and path, if they need to be arranged a specific way), and show its contents. But first, try to make each file contain the **minimum necessary** to demonstrate the problem.

> [@dtd](#):
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> The issue is setting the environment which I want to be the entire system. Failing that making the environment /home/me.

This is hard to understand, because it seems to depend on “environment” meaning something that it doesn’t actually mean here (and which I can’t guess).

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