Trouble running programmes VScode

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So, I was running through one of the online courses for Python on LinkedIn. The first step had me download the course from their GitHub. After doing this, I have tried to run the programmes however it seems that VSCode is trying to run them with python, I use a mac and it usually uses pythom3. I have also tried to run other programmes I have built but again they will not run. I have googled, and asked people about how to sort this however everything I have been told to do doesn’t work. This is what is written in the terminal after I have tried to run a programme.

[Running] python -u “/Users/samwestlake-cann/Documents/Python learning/HelloWorld/Training/app2.py/find_max.py”

/bin/sh: python: command not found

[Done] exited with code=127 in 0.008 seconds

[Running] python -u “/Users/samwestlake-cann/Documents/Python learning/HelloWorld/Training/app2.py/find_max.py”

/bin/sh: python: command not found

[Done] exited with code=127 in 0.008 seconds

This is really starting to bug me as I am unable to work on any of my programmes due to this. Please any help is desperately needed.

Thank you

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The easiest thing you can probably do is set up and alias so that python runs python3:

alias python=python3

and put that in your environments .rc file (.bashrc or .zshrc most likely.)

Alternatively you can symlink it but that’s a tad more complicated.

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In VSCode do, Command + Shift + p. Select the python interpreter