If you don’t want to call an entire Python script but just a specific function, you can use this method. And you don’t even have to change your script for it.

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Running Python scripts

Running a script from a command line is pretty straightforward.

If your script is named create_invoices.py you can use one of these commands:

py create_invoices.py
python create_invoices.py
python3 create_invoices.py

But you have to make sure the computer knows where the file is located, for which you have 2 options:

Option 1: Specify the filepath in the command:

If the create_invoices.py script is located in the directory C:\Users\Projects\Invoices

You can use a command like:

py C:\Users\Projects\Invoices\create_invoices.py

This works when there are no spaces in the filepath.

Option 2: Change the working directory to the directory where the script is located with the cd command:

cd C:\Users\Projects\Invoices
py create_invoices.py

Passing data into the…