How to run my first script in Alfred

[spawar]

Hi All,

Newbie here.

 

I just installed Alfred and wondering how to run my python script. 

I set it up as in the screenshots. When i type satt in my alfred app nothings happens.

Below is the content of my script.

cat hello.py
#!/usr/bin/python3
print('hello world')

 

Can you please suggest if any other configuration i need to . I googled a lot and also seached on youtube, i didnt get answer to question.

 

 

 

 

Note: It works fine if I use "Terminal Command" instead of "Run Script". The thing is I dont know how to pass variables etc when using "Terminal Command" , so i have to rely on "Run Script"

Edited July 22, 2021 by spawar

[deanishe]

7 hours ago, spawar said:

Can you please suggest if any other configuration i need to

 

An obvious cause would be that you forgot to make the script executable. Run chmod +x ~/hello.py in a shell and see if that fixes the problem.

 

[spawar]

@deanishe, Thank you for responding. It is already executable 

Quote

ls -lrt hello.py
-rwxr-xr-x  1 spawar  staff  40 Jul 22 19:20 hello.py

 

Edited July 23, 2021 by spawar

[giovanni]

where do you want 'hello world' to be printed? 

[deanishe]

On 7/23/2021 at 9:32 PM, spawar said:

@deanishe, Thank you for responding. It is already executable 

 

 

Right, then the script is presumably running just fine. As @giovanni is hinting, print() won’t show any text anywhere because you haven’t connected it to anything that shows text… Either plug it into a Large Type or a Show Notification, or change it to print('blah', file=sys.stderr), in which case the text will be shown in Alfred’s debugger.

 

Also, you probably want print('some text', end='') if you're not printing to the debugger, so there isn’t a newline on the end of the text.

Edited July 25, 2021 by deanishe

[spawar]

@deanishe, it works this way. Thanks!