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:

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