Question

I’m setting up remote_api locally and this time around it’s not working. I’m just following the instructions on the remote_api doc page for python here: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/remote_api.html

Which basically means I’m running the following command from the project app root (that contains app.yaml)

>> python $GAE_SDK_ROOT/remote_api_shell.py -s your_app_id.appspot.com
>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: can't open file '/remote_api_shell.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

The your_app_id param is being changed to the actual app id on google’s.

It’s probably a simple thing, but not sure what it is.

Answer 1

You need to replace $GAE_SDK_ROOT with the actual root directory of your GAE SDK. So, probably:

python ~/google_appengine/remote_api_shell.py -s ...