On 3 Dec, 19:49, Philip Semanchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Astley Le Jasper wrote: > > > > > On 3 Dec, 16:41, Philip Semanchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Dec 3, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Astley Le Jasper wrote: > > >>> I've included a switch to include or exclude theloggingto console. > >>> Whenloggingonly to file, the script runs fine. > > >>> Of course, I still don't understand whyduallogging, and specifically > >>> to the console, causes a problem and if anyone has any comments > >>> about > >>> thedualoutputloggingcode above then I'd still be happy to hear > >>> about it. > > >> Trying to write non-ASCII characters perchance? > > > Errmmm ... that's kind of spoookey. I using UTF-8 encoding as I have a > > lot of European language characters. But would that cause a problem > > when running from crontab but not in the terminal? > > > Go on then ... spill the beans. > > Oh, I don't know exactly. It's just what I thought of when you said > that the problem occurs when logging to the console but not to files. > I don't have a deep Unix background so I can't give you the details on > what "the console" means to a cron job. > > In my experience, the environment in which a cron job runs is > different from the environment in which some command line scripts run > (remember my earlier suggestion about needing to explicitly set the > PATH?) and so if the console for a cron job differed from the console > that a Python program sees when run in a terminal, that would not > surprise me. > > Hope it's a useful suggestion > Philip
I tried using the path variables but it didn't help. There again, I didn't really understand what was being passed in the path variables and, rather than just copying and pasting, I wanted to look up further info to get to grips with it. I've got something that works, so now the pressure is off I can spend some time looking it up. [sigh ... my experiences with linux haven't been that good so far. It is, if nothing else, interesting] Thanks ALJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
