I've noticed an oddity when running a program, using the csv module,
within IDLE. I'm new to Python so am confused by what is happening.
Here is what I'm doing:
1) Open the IDLE Shell.
2) Select File | Open...
3) Choose my file, foo.py, opening it in a window.
4) From that window, I hit F5 to run the module.
Within the program, the snippet where I use the csv module is below:
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csvfile = open('foo.csv', 'w')
writer = csv.writer(csvfile)
for row in rows:
writer.writerow(row[0:3])
csvfile.close
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The rows object is returned from a database query and is a list of
tuples. Now here is the strange thing. If I run this program
directly from the command line, i.e.,
D:\test> D:\python25\python foo.py
It runs fine, foo.csv is created and all is well. However, when I run
it through the IDLE shell as described above, the foo.csv file is
created but remains empty at 0 bytes. When I try to delete the file,
Windows says it is in use. The only way I can break out of this is by
restarting the IDLE shell. In other words, it appears that the shell
is hanging.
This will run through Task Scheduler, so shouldn't be a problem, but
I'm worried that I'm coding this wrong for it to be acting this way
under IDLE. Any help or explanation would be appreciated.
Best Regards,
Tom
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