Crontab not executing a Python script?

Question

My python script is not running under my crontab.

I have placed this in the python script at the top:

#!/usr/bin/python

I hav

Answer 1

Easiest way to handle this is to add your python installation's path to PATH in top of the shell script. Something like:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
export PATH="{path to your python installation}:$PATH"
python {python_file_name}.py

As @Shargors said you can test it by

env -i /bin/bash --noprofile --norc