Error running docker container: starting container process caused “exec: \”python\“: executable file not found in $PATH”: unknown

Question

I am trying to dockerize a simple Python-Flask application but I am getting an error while running my container.

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Answer 1

There is no /usr/bin/python in a docker image built by the code above. But there is /usr/bin/python3. So you could either use python3 directly as your ENTRYPOINT or create a symlink.