Different results when running script from IDLE versus Command Line

[Chris]

On Mar 12, 8:10 pm, Casey T <cptho... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Python and I'm having some problems with getting different
> results from my script when I run it from IDLE versus just double-
> clicking the .py file and having it run through the command line.
> Basically, my script reads some CSV files, assembles a text files,
> then uploads that test file to an ftp site. When I run the script from
> IDLE, everything works fine. But when it runs from the command line,
> the file that gets uploaded is empty. It seems that it is creating a
> new file to upload, rather than using the existing file (or at least
> that's what I think is going on.) Below is my script. I apologize for
> any ugly code. Thanks for your help.
>
> import sys,os,linecache,csv,ftplib,time
>
> starttime = time.time()
>
> #*******
> #Summary file assembling
> #*******
> currentdir = "//folder/"
>
> reg_sum = open('reg_sum.txt','w')
> reg_sum.close
>
> for files in os.listdir(currentdir):
>     reg_file = csv.reader(open(currentdir + files))
>     for row in reg_file:
>         reg_sum = open('reg_sum.txt','a')
>         reg_sum.write(",".join(row) + ',\n')
>
> reg_sum.close
>
> #*******
> #Summary file processing
> #*******
> coordList = [
>     ["F10",40.0053,-75.0927],
>     ["T10",40.0272,-75.1123],
>     ["D22",39.9811,-75.0998],
>     ["P02",40.0437,-75.0217],
>     ["D68",39.9203,-75.1388],
>     ["D51",39.9534,-75.1405],
>     ["S43",39.9217,-75.2275],
>     ["S33",39.9360,-75.2077],
>     ["S42A",39.9215,-75.1937],
>     ["S05",39.9617,-75.1782],
>     ["T14",40.0165,-75.1077]]
>
> coordList_index =
> ["F10","T10","D22","P02","D68","D51","S43","S33","S42A","S05","T14"]
> #coordList_index is a list containing
>
> in_text = open('reg_sum.txt','r')
>
> out_text = open('reg_out.txt','w')
> out_text.close
>
> out_text = open('reg_out.txt','a')
>
> for line in in_text:
>     split_line = line.split(',')
>     if (split_line[0]) in coordList_index:
>        i = coordList_index.index(split_line[0])
>        coords = str(coordList[i][1]) + "," + str(coordList[i][2])
>        last_update = str(split_line[2])
>     print str(split_line[0])
>     if split_line[1] == "1":
>        out_text.write(split_line[0] + "<br>,Test1: " + last_update +
> "," + coords + ",1" + "\n")
>     elif split_line[1] == "0":
>        out_text.write(split_line[0] + "<br>,Test2.<br>Last updated: "
> + last_update + ","  + coords + ",0" + "\n")
>     else:
>        out_text.write(split_line[0] + "<br>,No data.," + coords +
> "\n")
>
> in_text.close
>
> ###*******
> ###Uploads file via FTP
> ###*******
> s = ftplib.FTP('ftp.blah123.org,'user','pass')
>
> f.open('reg_out.txt','r')
> s.storlines('STOR reg_out.txt', f)
>
> f.close()
> s.quit()
>
> print  "Processed in " + str(((time.time() - starttime) / 60) *60) + "
> seconds!" #prints elapsed time

You never closed your file.

file_object.close
<built-in method close of file object at 0x00BA6CC8>

try adding '()' at the end of your close calls.
As to why it differs, I can't think offhand why it wouldn't.