“Cannot access setup.py: No such file or directory” - can't run any .py files?

Question

This problem started while I was installing pyswip and needed to run a setup.py file. Using the command "python setup.py", I'm greeted with the following message: "python: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory."

I know this question's been asked a lot before, so I've tried everything in previous answers. Including #!/usr/bin/env python or #!/usr/bin/env python-3.3.0 at the very top of the script and then trying " chmod +x setup.py " gives the following: "chmod: cannot access setup.py': No such file or directory" .

Trying to run other .py files from the terminal gives the same result.

Running the file in the Python Shell from IDLE doesn't do anything.

Running the "ls -d */" command shows that the Python-3.3.0/ directory, where the .py files in question are, is definitely there.

Am I missing something really obvious? (If it helps, I have Elementary OS 0.2.)

Answer 1

When you run python setup.py that requires the setup.py file to be in the current directory.

You can control the current directory with the cd command.

So:

cd /home/acacia/Python-3.3.0/PySwip/pyswip-0.2.3
python setup.py install

Answer 2

I have no knowledge about Elementary OS but you could try to use the full path of the setup.py.

python /home/acacia/Python-3.3.0/PySwip/pyswip-0.2.3/setup.py install

[EDIT] Can't answer comments, so I just added the install parameter in my answer

Answer 3

You need to go into the directory that you are going to "setup". For example, if you are installing numpy, and you have git-cloned it, then it probably is located at ~/numpy. So first cd into ~/numpy, and the type the commend like "python setup.py build" there.