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

[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", "w")
> x = 0
> while 1:
>    f.write("Sleeping: %d\r\n" % x)
>    x += 1
>    time.sleep(2)
> 
> f.close()
> ---
> 
> I've run it under my user account. I've run it as Local Account. I've 
> run it via pythonw and python ... only one way works:
> 
> When I run with full credentials (not local account) and python (not 
> pythonw) I get output in the file (and a CMD window appears while it's 
> running). In every other combination it creates the 'waiting.txt' file, 
> but doesn't write any output to the file. The length of the file is 0 
> bytes.
> 
> Anyone have ideas what could be causing this? I suspect it's blocking on 
> something, but I can't imagine where.
> 
> There is no stderr/stdout output anywhere in the program so it's not 
> blocking on anything stdio related (that I can imagine)
> 
> Thoughts?
> -Sandy
> 
>