To make that work, create a “stub” file—a .py file in the top levet of your project that takes the same steps to run your application as the contents of the __main__.py file.

Interested in learning Python? Jack Wallen takes you through your first steps in building a simple application to take user input and write it to a file.

First of all, I prefer to create a virtual environment by running python3 -m venv .env, and then installing the Streamlit package by running pip3 install streamlit. Now create a Python script.

You can create and render Quarto files with any plain text editor and your terminal, just as you can with R or Python scripts, since they are plain text and not binary files.