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I have created a simple task-timing program in which the user presses a key to start a timer, and again to stop. The program displays the time elapsed. This all works fine when i run the program, however after this I have the time and task name saved to a file. When run in IDLE (and NetBeans), this save works perfectly. However in the command window, the program closes, not before briefly displaying a traceback error. The data is not saved to the file (which is in the same folder as my program).

Here is the code:

*import time

task = input('What task are you completing?n')

print('Press ENTER to begin. Afterwards, press ENTER to "click" the stopwatch. Press Ctrl-C to quit.')

input()                    

print('Started.')

startTime = time.time()    

lastTime = startTime



while True:

        input()



        totalTime = round(time.time() - startTime, 2)



        totalTime = str(totalTime)



        seconds = int(float(totalTime))



        minutes, seconds = divmod(seconds, 60)

        hours, minutes = divmod(minutes, 60)

        periods = [('hours', hours), ('minutes', minutes), ('seconds', seconds)]

        time_string = ', '.join('{} {}'.format(value, name)

                                for name, value in periods

                                if value)



        print(str(task) + ' took: ' + time_string)

        time.sleep(2)

        print('Saving to file')

        time.sleep(3)







        writefile = open('Timelog.csv','a')

        writefile.write(task + ', ' + time_string + '')

        writefile.close()

        break

end = input('Press enter to close')

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Is there any chance that you can open a command-prompt/terminal-session and execute from there? That would let you grab the trace.

I'm guessing quant has the right of it and you're running into a access/permissions hurdle of some kind. You can also try saving to a filename that doesn't exist yet; maybe it's just overwriting the file created with the IDE that's is the problem.