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Hi Guys,

I'm encountering an issue while trying to use Prefect through CLI. When I am running the following command:
```python3 -m prefect ```
I am getting this error:
```/path/to/python3.10: No module named prefect.__main__; 'prefect' is a package and cannot be directly executed```
and I am using Python version 3. If I am trying to perform the same thing in prefect version 1, then I can see the output.

Hi Vijay! What are you looking to do through the CLI. Start a new server? Or run a script?

Hi Bianca, I am trying to start a worker in a docker container using `prefect worker start` . Previously I was using Prefect version 1 to run the Agent and it was working fine with the same envirnoment. After upgrading to Prefect version 3, it is throwing this error. I have checked, and Prefect is installed properly.

Are you still seeing the same behavior if you run just `prefect worker start` ?
I think running `python3 -m prefect` will throw an error because you're trying to directly execute the Prefect package.
If you have prefect installed, you should be able to just use `prefect &lt;insert cmd here&gt;`
ie: `prefect server start` , `prefect worker start`, `prefect profile inspect` etc.