Tacho Lycos 2024-2025 Payload Code

There are guidelines on how code should be structured and uploaded to this repository.

Setting Up Your Python Venv

The first thing you should do prior to running your code is set up your virtual environment. To do this open you your terminal and make sure you are in the Payload-2023-2024 directory. Inside of that directory call the commands

(Install pip3)

sudo apt install python3-pip

(Install venv)

sudo apt install python3-venv

(Make venv)

python3 -m venv env

to set up your virtual environment in a folder called env. Next you need to set this folder as your interpreter (your IDE might prompt you to do this automatically. If it did not prompt you, to do this in VS Code, press ctrl+shift+p to open your command prompt and type in Python: Select Interpreter. Press enter and select the one that ends in something like ('env':venv).

Installing Required Packages

In order to install the required packages, open a new terminal in VS Code by pressing ctrl+shift+` . This terminal will already be in your virtual environment, and simply run the command

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Running the Program

Source the venv

source venv/bin/activate

Now that you have all the required packages installed, you can run the program by running the command

python3 main.py

or with arguments

python3 main.py <arguments>