The confusing part here is that no one has indicated whether or not the statement fails in any of the six ways to run this program except me.
Am I the only one that as the problem? -----Original Message----- From: Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 6, 2025 12:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A switch somewhere, or bug? CORRECTION On 2025-12-04 18:03:34 -0500, Em wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^ Weird. That was before most of the thread (and the message wasn't stuck in a moderation queue), yet it seems everybody ignored this message. . Probably because it isn't actually part of the thread, but ... > On my computer: Win11, Python 3.14.1 > > > > Double-click and run on the file". You will see the first two lines > execute. > > The screen will show "Start" and "Starter File". Good. So we know that the program is executed. > Hit <Enter> to resolve the > pause statement and the program crashes when it tries to create the > "HLY-LOG5" file. The last line, "End" is not printed. No file is created. So the next step is to find out why it isn't executed. First print the working directory: import os print("Start") print("working directory:", os.getcwd()) input(" Starter file") then wrap the open in a try/except block: try: Starter = open("HLY-LOG5.txt","w") except Exception as e: print("Error: {e}") input("End") This should now tell you in which directory the program is actually trying to create the file and why it didn't work. hip -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality. |_|_) | | | | | [email protected] | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
