Ubuntu 18.04上的VSCode无法运行Python程序

Question

I am trying to use VSCode with Python 3.6 on an Ubuntu 18.04 system. I wrote a "hello world" program.

msg = "Hello World"
print(msg)

If I highlight it and press shift+enter it runs without problem, but, if I right-click and select to execute the file in a terminal I get this error message.

>>> /usr/bin/python3.6 /home/nuria/hello/hello.py
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    /usr/bin/python3.6 /home/nuria/hello/hello.py
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

I really don't know how to fix it. Please help!

Answer 1

This is happening because your terminal is still running python. vscode is trying to execute /usr/bin/python3.6 /home/nuria/hello/hello.py in python terminal which is still running from when you executed code using Shift + Enter . Just exit python shell and everything should work.