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 <insert cmd here>

ie:

prefect server start

,

prefect worker start

,

prefect profile inspect

etc.