从OS X终端运行时，Python脚本不会写入文本文件

Question

So I've written a pretty basic script as part of a larger test of my system. Essentially, it just creates a new file text.txt and writes "abject failure" to the file.

#!/usr/bin/env python
print "running"  
text_file = open("text.txt", "a")
text_file.write("abject failure")    
text_file.close()

print "success"

The script works wonderfully when I run from IDLE, but when I run from the Mac OS X terminal with

python /Users/.../serverside.py 

I only get the "print" values but nothing is written to the text.txt file. Why is this and how can I fix it?

Answer 1

To make sure that your script always works, no matter where your call is coming from, also set an absolute path to your file

text_file = open("/Users/path/to/file/text.txt", "a")

The other solution, as stated in the comment, is to change your working directory to the path where you want the file to be

cd /Users/path/to/file
python /Users/.../serverside.py