How to change main.py file from run

[harishmantri1]

Question:

currently when I click on run it only runs main.py file not another one. how do I change the default file from main.py to something else.

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[NateDhaliwal]

Hey @harishmantri1!

Just click the ⋮ next to “Files” then click “Show hidden files”. Next click on the .replit file and finally you can change the entrypoint to whatever file you want to run.

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You should also see the docs on how to configure a Repl: https://docs.replit.com/programming-ide/configuring-repl

And if you want to run the last edited file, take a look at this post:

@UMARismyname

improved: add/change to start of .replit:

onBoot = '''/nix/store/fbi9r30p3lqk96lmw5b1v1bpbj62cr2l-inotify-tools-3.20.11.0/bin/inotifywait -rqme create --format=%f%w --include='\..+\.py.[0-9]+~' .|while
read f
do
f=${f#.}
o=
r=
while
read -r l||[ "$l" ]
do
case $r
in
"")case $l
in entrypoint*)m="${l%\"*\"}\"${f#*~./}${f%.*~*}\""
case $m
in
"$l")break
esac
l=$m
r=1
esac
esac
o="$o$l
"
false
done<.replit||echo -n "$o">.replit
done'''

And run kill 1 in Shell.
This will map the entrypoint to the last file you edited through the IDE.
Replace .+\.py on line 1 with the ERE of the files you want to be auto-set as entrypoint.
(I tried an option which checks for you just visiting the file in the editor but I found that that’s impossible. Maybe you can do this with an extension)

If this answers your question, you can mark this post as a Solution.

[HatidzaSerdare1]

Hi, where is the

@NateDhaliwal

the ⋮ next to “Files”

I can’t find it. Is it possibl that the explanation works only for some older version?

[UMARismyname]

On desktop, it’s on the top right in the sidebar.
If you’re on mobile, please edit the tags on your topic to reflect that. There, I think it’d be on the top right of whatever panel you access the file tree from.

[QwertyQwerty88]

@UMARismyname

If you’re on mobile, please edit the tags on your topic to reflect that.

@HatidzaSerdare1 isn’t OP

[HatidzaSerdare1]

This is how it looks for me. Could you please circle it?

[Firepup650]

Click the button in the upper-left corner of the Repl, that’ll reveal the sidebar.

Also, you cannot have spaces in variable names, so that code will not run.

[HatidzaSerdare1]

I appreciate the remark about the space, it is a part of the course where they give you a ‘broken code’ and you have to fix it, in this case the mistake was the space.

I have finally found the sidebar and managed to run the program. Is this (changing the entrypoint in the .replit) the only way to switch from one file running to the other? Because it seems rather impractical. I wish there was a way to keep two programes together and be able to switch between them just by clicking which one you want to run, without having to edit the .replit code…

[KAlexK]

It has already been proposed to add such a feature, but a similar function has not been added.

Launch a specific file using the Run button in the drop-down menu

Describe your feature request When you right-click in the code editor, select “Run” in the drop-down menu to launch the currently open file. An example of what it might look like: [image] What problem(s) would this feature solve? It is inconvenient to constantly open the .replit file and change the Run launched by the green button in it file. This feature would speed up the process of launching various files. Also this function would be more convenient than this: Explain what you were t…

Specify the currently open file as entrypoint in .replit

When I have a collection of multiple scripts in a Replit project, I would like to run the script I have currently open in the Replit editor. So something like you can do in VS Code where you can specify the launch task for the current file. I know that I can always manually edit the .replit file and enter the desired path as entrypoint, but some configuration to automatically run the currently open file would be cool.

[Firepup650]

If that’s what you want, you could do this:

@UMARismyname

improved: add/change to start of .replit:

onBoot = '''/nix/store/fbi9r30p3lqk96lmw5b1v1bpbj62cr2l-inotify-tools-3.20.11.0/bin/inotifywait -rqme create --format=%f%w --include='\..+\.py.[0-9]+~' .|while
read f
do
f=${f#.}
o=
r=
while
read -r l||[ "$l" ]
do
case $r
in
"")case $l
in entrypoint*)m="${l%\"*\"}\"${f#*~./}${f%.*~*}\""
case $m
in
"$l")break
esac
l=$m
r=1
esac
esac
o="$o$l
"
false
done<.replit||echo -n "$o">.replit
done'''

And run kill 1 in Shell.
This will map the entrypoint to the last file you edited through the IDE.

[HatidzaSerdare1]

I greatly appreciate both of your replies
I guess I’ll just open a new file next time hahaha

[UMARismyname]

@HatidzaSerdare1

just open a new file

wait what do you mean

[HatidzaSerdare1]

Instead of

I’ll open entire new document haha