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title: "python script is not found"
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date: 2023-07-28
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When setting up a new machine, vm, docker image you might be installing command line tools from places like pip.  They will often put executables in your `~/.local/bin` directory, but by default your shell is not looking in that directory for commands.

``` bash
  WARNING: The script dotenv is installed in '/home/falcon/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
```

To solve this you need to add that directory to your $PATH.


``` bash
export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin
```

To make this change permanant add this line to your shell's init script, which is likely something like `~/.bashrc` or `~/.zshrc`.