Re: Strangeness: Cannot write to a file from a process created by Windows Task Scheduler ...

2009-10-26 Thread MRAB
Sandy Walsh wrote: Yes it seems to be a flush problem. Strange how it doesn't require the explicit flush() when the console window appears, but does otherwise. Either way, it gives me a good direction to chase after. [snip] It buffers for efficiency reasons, but if it can detect that it's con

Re: Strangeness: Cannot write to a file from a process created by Windows Task Scheduler ...

2009-10-26 Thread Sandy Walsh
Thanks Marco & Al, Yes it seems to be a flush problem. Strange how it doesn't require the explicit flush() when the console window appears, but does otherwise. Either way, it gives me a good direction to chase after. Thanks again for your quick help guys! -Sandy Marco Bizzarri wrote: You c

Re: Strangeness: Cannot write to a file from a process created by Windows Task Scheduler ...

2009-10-26 Thread MRAB
Sandy Walsh wrote: Hi there, Seeing some really weird behavior and perhaps someone has seen something similar: I have a python script that launches as a Windows Scheduled Task. The program simply opens a disk file and writes some text to it: --- f = open("waiting.txt", "w") x = 0 while 1:

Re: Strangeness: Cannot write to a file from a process created by Windows Task Scheduler ...

2009-10-26 Thread Marco Bizzarri
You could try to flush the file? Maybe it would flush once you close, which never happens; did you try to limit the amount of times it run inside the 'while' loop? Regards Marco On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Sandy Walsh wrote: > Hi there, > > Seeing some really weird behavior and perhaps so

Re: Strangeness: Cannot write to a file from a process created by Windows Task Scheduler ...

2009-10-26 Thread Al Fansome
Do you "import time"? Sandy Walsh wrote: Hi there, Seeing some really weird behavior and perhaps someone has seen something similar: I have a python script that launches as a Windows Scheduled Task. The program simply opens a disk file and writes some text to it: --- f = open("waiting.txt

Strangeness: Cannot write to a file from a process created by Windows Task Scheduler ...

2009-10-26 Thread Sandy Walsh
Hi there, Seeing some really weird behavior and perhaps someone has seen something similar: I have a python script that launches as a Windows Scheduled Task. The program simply opens a disk file and writes some text to it: --- f = open("waiting.txt", "w") x = 0 while 1: f.write("Sleeping