Executing python scripts with “import requests” from a bash script

Question

I have to run a few python scripts and was trying to create a bash script to do it for me. The bash script is as follows:

#!/bin/bash    

FILE=$(ls | grep .\.py)
for f in $FILE
do
    python2.6 $f
done

And the following error pops up for each of python calls:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "script.py", line 2, in ?
    import requests
  File "/[some path]/python/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/requests-2.0.0-py2.6.egg/requests/__init__.py", line 53
    from .packages.urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl

Any ideas would help a lot. Thanks for your time.

EDIT:

Output from

import sys
print sys.version
...

2.6.6 (r266:84292, Nov 21 2013, 10:50:32) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)]

Answer 1

Can you go into the interpreter and do import requests and it works?

Can you test which version of python you are calling by doing an import sys , print sys.version before the import requests ? Also possibly check your pythonpath variables to make sure you aren't improperly mixing different versions of python.

Also, you seem to be using a rather old version of requests. It may make sense to upgrade to a newer version (or at least check through the issues to see if anyone else has encountered this).