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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say "python just shuts down"? Is there any error/output?

     

    After line 19, you should either get an error printed via line 22, or execution should continue and perform the users_get_current_account call (though this minimal example doesn't actually do anything with the result) and then print "Successfully set up client!".

    • lsteel11's avatar
      lsteel11
      Explorer | Level 4

      Hi Greg, 

       

      Thanks for your response. I have taken a screenshot (below). When I click return at this point (so that I can then run the next section of code) the python window closes immediately. I presume this is something to do with the exit(1) command? Many thanks. 

       

       

       

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        It looks like you're running your python3.10.exe directly, and the window is closing automatically when the program completes (such as from the exit call, as you mentioned). I can't really offer support for your development environment itself as that's not made by Dropbox, but there are other ways to set this up so that you get to see the output even once execution completes, e.g., you may want to save the code as a file and run that from the command line.

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