I am a 61 year old total novice, and I would like to use GEANY as an IDE for the PYTHON programming language. I have a HP laptop with windows 8.1 installed and I have downloaded PYTHON 2.7.8 and GEANY 1.24. when I try to execute some code I have written I get the following error message.
19:41:30: Failed to execute "(null)" (start-script could not be created: Failed to create file: Permission denied) Can anyone help me get started
On 14-09-02 11:44 AM, james bernard wrote:
I am a 61 year old total novice, and I would like to use GEANY as an IDE for the PYTHON programming language. I have a HP laptop with windows 8.1 installed and I have downloaded PYTHON 2.7.8 and GEANY 1.24. when I try to execute some code I have written I get the following error message.
19:41:30: Failed to execute "(null)" (start-script could not be created: Failed to create file: Permission denied) Can anyone help me get started
Hi,
When Geany runs your Python script, it first writes a "runner" script to allow you to see the output of the Python script. It sounds like it's trying create it in a non-accessible directory. You might be able to make it work by right-clicking on the shortcut to Geany and in the properties window, change the "Start in" directory to something inside your personal directory (probably something like "C:\Users\You\Projects" or whatever you want, as long as it's under your personal directory). Alternatively, your Python script itself might be in a non-writable directory, which might also cause this problem. You should move it to anywhere under your personal directory (as above).
This might allow Geany to create this run script. If it's not that, someone else might have a better idea, I'm far from a Win8 expert :)
Cheers, Matthew Brush
On 14-09-02 02:37 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
On 14-09-02 11:44 AM, james bernard wrote:
I am a 61 year old total novice, and I would like to use GEANY as an IDE for the PYTHON programming language. I have a HP laptop with windows 8.1 installed and I have downloaded PYTHON 2.7.8 and GEANY 1.24. when I try to execute some code I have written I get the following error message.
19:41:30: Failed to execute "(null)" (start-script could not be created: Failed to create file: Permission denied) Can anyone help me get started
Hi,
When Geany runs your Python script, it first writes a "runner" script to allow you to see the output of the Python script. It sounds like it's trying create it in a non-accessible directory. You might be able to make it work by right-clicking on the shortcut to Geany and in the properties window, change the "Start in" directory to something inside your personal directory (probably something like "C:\Users\You\Projects" or whatever you want, as long as it's under your personal directory). Alternatively, your Python script itself might be in a non-writable directory, which might also cause this problem. You should move it to anywhere under your personal directory (as above).
This might allow Geany to create this run script. If it's not that, someone else might have a better idea, I'm far from a Win8 expert :)
Also, once you get past that, you might have issue since IIRC Python doesn't add itself to your "PATH" environment variable, at least by default. See the answer here for how to do that (but no need to reboot like it says to, just re-start Geany):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21372637/installing-python-2-7-on-windows...
Cheers, Matthew Brush
Firstly, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to help me. I have carried out the steps you suggested. I also entered the "set build commands" page and in the field to the right of the execute field I entered "%e;" Now when I try to execute I get a "C:\ WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" window opening,saying access denied press any key to continue... when I press any key, the following message flashes up momentarily the batch file cannot be found.
I don't know if that means anything to you or not. but as I say thanks for trying to help, I do appreciate it
On Tuesday, 2 September 2014, 22:37, Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
On 14-09-02 11:44 AM, james bernard wrote:
I am a 61 year old total novice, and I would like to use GEANY as an IDE for the PYTHON programming language. I have a HP laptop with windows 8.1 installed and I have downloaded PYTHON 2.7.8 and GEANY 1.24. when I try to execute some code I have written I get the following error message.
19:41:30: Failed to execute "(null)" (start-script could not be created: Failed to create file: Permission denied) Can anyone help me get started
Hi,
When Geany runs your Python script, it first writes a "runner" script to allow you to see the output of the Python script. It sounds like it's trying create it in a non-accessible directory. You might be able to make it work by right-clicking on the shortcut to Geany and in the properties window, change the "Start in" directory to something inside your personal directory (probably something like "C:\Users\You\Projects" or whatever you want, as long as it's under your personal directory). Alternatively, your Python script itself might be in a non-writable directory, which might also cause this problem. You should move it to anywhere under your personal directory (as above).
This might allow Geany to create this run script. If it's not that, someone else might have a better idea, I'm far from a Win8 expert :)
Cheers, Matthew Brush
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On 3 September 2014 04:44, james bernard seamusbernard@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I am a 61 year old total novice, and I would like to use GEANY as an IDE for the PYTHON programming language. I have a HP laptop with windows 8.1 installed and I have downloaded PYTHON 2.7.8 and GEANY 1.24. when I try to execute some code I have written I get the following error message.
Did you save the code to a file with the .py extension before executing it?
Cheers Lex
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