On 12/7/2019 1:56 PM, RobH wrote: >>> current_time = time.strftime("%I:%M")<<< stays at this line >> in an interactive Python interpreter ? In IDLE on Windows with 3.7 and 3.9, time.strftime runs fine. >>> import time >>> time.strftime("%I:%M") '11:48' >>> current_time = time.strftime("%I:%M") >>> current_time '11:48' -- Terry Jan Reedy