crontab doesn't execute my python script

Question

I'm trying to add my python script into cron so it executes every minute

This is my python code:

#!/usr/bin/env  python
import urllib2
from urllib2 import urlopen
import zipfile
import os.path
from time import sleep
import csv
import re
import urllib
import os

class Tor_class:
    def __init__(self, s ,ip_tor_file,name):
            url = ip_tor_file

            request = urllib2.Request(url, headers={"Accept" : "text/html"})
            webFile = urllib2.urlopen(request)

            localFile = open(url.split('/')[-1], 'w')
            localFile.write(webFile.read())
            webFile.close()
            localFile.close()
            self.name_ = name
            self.counter = 0


def updateDB():

    ip_Tor = Tor_class('\n','''http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ip_list_exit.php/Tor_ip_list_EXIT.csv''',"Tor")
    os.rename('Tor_ip_list_EXIT.csv','Tor_ip_list_EXIT.txt')


 if __name__ == "__main__":
    updateDB()

when I put this script in cron by using crontab -e

*       *       *       *       *       /tmp/download.py

It doesn't do anything.

It is all works just fine when I do it in a commend line like that:

$ /tmp/download.py

Does anyone have a clue why It doesn't work?

Answer 1

First, you have an odd indentation in the line with if __name__ ==... - guess you should check it in your script. Then, make sure with what current directory your script runs, AFAIK it is your $HOME - this is where the file would appear.