Not printing to console

[LaurenTan]

Problem description:
Python 3: Nothing is outputting to the console when I call functions in the console

Expected behavior:
Calling a function should return the functions output

Actual behavior:
Calling the function does nothing

Bug appears at this link:
https://replit.com/@CSPR23/The-Random-Library-Project#main.py

[RedCoder]

@LaurenTan Prybar was removed from the default Python template. Instead, if you put python3 in front of any command in the console, it will work. For your case, run this in the console:

python3 flip()

Or, if you’d like to directly use it, check out this post:

Removing Prybar from the Run Button

Hello Replit users, Replit is updating the default run button behavior for Python and Node.js Repls. Python Repls will now use the python3 executable to execute your code and Node.js Repls will use the node executable. Wait, it didn’t do that before? An artifact of Replit’s origins, Python 3 and Node.js Repls’ run button has been configured to use prybar - which in turn delegates execution to the python3 and nodejs interpreters. prybar is a multi-language REPL (that’s read-evaluate-print-lo…

[Firepup650]

@RedCoder

For your case, run this in the console:

python3 flip()

That shouldn’t work, since that’s not a builtin function.

[LaurenTan]

I tried that, but I am getting the following error:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(’

[LaurenTan]

I tried that, but I am getting the following error:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(’

[CoderElijah]

Run python3 -i main.py in the console, or just use the prybar template.

[LaurenTan]

@CoderElijah

python3 -i main.py

OK, that worked thanks

[NateDhaliwal]

Hi @LaurenTan !
Since @CoderElijah 's post solved your issue, could you mark that post as a Solution?

[Firepup650]

Just for completion’s sake, Replit Staff released a python+prybar template:

What do you think of Prybar (the REPL in the Console)?

@ParkerGriffith I see. You can either start with the Prybar template. Or your can add: modules = ["python-with-prybar-3.10:v2-20230925-77b13e4"] to the top of .replit and remove most of what’s currently in it. Or simply replace it with: entrypoint = "main.py" modules = ["python-with-prybar-3.10:v2-20230925-77b13e4"] hidden = [".pythonlibs"] [nix] channel = "stable-23_05" because you don’t need most of what the existing contents anyway.