Python Scripts

[David Raymond]

> im having problems when running python scripts
> 
> When running the scripts it always closes immediately

If you're running it in Windows, and running it by double clicking on a .py file, then it will pop up a console window while it's running, and then immediately close that window when the script is complete. So if the script is failing immediately or even succeeding quickly, then the window with all the output is closing immediately too.

If this is what's going on with you, you can open the console first and run the scripts from there. That way all their output will still be there for you to see when it's complete.

Alternatively as a temporary debugging solution you could surround the main part (or all) of the script in a try statement and in the except clause have a "hit enter to continue" bit to freeze it before it closes the window.


import traceback
try:
    stuff
except:
    traceback.print_exc()
    raise
finally:
    input("Hit Enter to close")