Saving lines of script to a text file? - python

I am wondering would it be possible to save few line of code (as it is) from a script (in python) to a textile while running the script in Pycharm which I run every time with new arguments, and I would like to save these arguments with other results automatically, so that I can know which arguments leads to which results, I don't have to add them manually and it's automatically saved in text file to my path.
Example!
For example I want to save the following line of python code from the script to a text file so that I can know I have multiplied the loss2 with 0.75:
"return loss + 0.75*loss2"
OR
"self.lstm = tf.keras.layers.Bidirectional(LSTM(80, return sequences=False,return_state=False),merge mode='ave')"
I want to save these kind of scripts (while running) it as a text file specifically in Pycharm.

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Unknown problem in Python. Printing does not work and files are not saved correctly

When I try to write something, such as variables, the code is renamed to the file name on the computer.
For example, if I write:
a = 20
f = 15
print(a+f)
then the code file will automatically be renamed to the first line, i.e. "a = 20"
Then, when I try to run the code, the program outputs nothing but "Python" and some incomprehensible words.
What could it be related to?
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I installed the latest version of Visual Stuio Code with Python, they are new, so there should be no problems. But this time it went wrong.
After reinstalling the program, the problem remains.
First of all, if there is no special requirement, please do not use Code Runner to run the script, using the official extension Python is a better choice.
In addition, the dot on your file label means that you have not saved the file, you can add the following setting to enable automatic saving in the settings.
"files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
You may have created the file using the following method. File --> New File... --> Python File. At this time, the file has not been named, also not saved. You can see that there is no such file in the resource manager list at this time.
So the file label shows the first line of codes. This is a feature of vscode, you can refer to this link. And because the file has not been saved, there will be problems executing the script.
You can rename the script file directly (F2), or vscode will remind you to name the file when saving. Another way to create a file is to right click and choose New File..., enter filename and end with .py extension.

Strange behavior when trying to create and write to a text file on macOS [duplicate]

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Convert UTF-8 with BOM to UTF-8 with no BOM in Python
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I'm opening a plain text file, parsing it, and adding different lines to existing, empty string variables. I add these variables into a new variable that is a multi-line fstring. Trying to write the data to a new text file is not behaving as expected.
Reading the original file works fine. Text is properly parsed, variables populated.
The multi-line fstring variable seems fine. Prints normally. Even tried formatting it different ways which I show below.
When writing to a new file, that's where the strangeness starts. I've tried 2 ways:
Straight coding the open function with w or w+
Adding the above to a function and using that inside main()
The file is saved to disk with the correct name. Trying to double-click open in Finder produces nothing. Right-click to open produces nothing. Trying to move to trash with command+delete gives an error:
It sounds like the file goes to trash, but as the file disappears from the folder a new one is created with the same name in its place.
If I try to open in TextMate via File > Open, it opens as a blank file with no errors.
Since I can't get rid of the file, I have to delete the directory and create the directory again with the same name, or force delete in Terminal using rm. Restarting the system does not help. Relaunching Finder does nothing. Saving text files from other apps works fine. Directory is chmod 755.
If I copy an existing text file into the output directory, rename it to what the file is expected to be named, and let python overwrite the contents, it doesn't work either. The file modification date changes (and I see the file "blink" in Finder) but the contents remain the same. However, the file is not corrupted and opens normally.
If I do the same but delete the text inside of the copied file first, then run the script, python writes no data to the file, I can't open it by double-clicking on it, and I get error -43 again with the odd non-trashing behavior.
The strangest thing is this: if I add another with open() at the end of the script, and open the file that was just created and supposedly written to, and print its contents, the contents print. It's like when the script ends the file contents are being removed or its being corrupted somehow. Tried to close the file inside the script even though it's not needed, but same behavior persists.
Code:
Here's the code for writing:
FORMAT='utf-8'
OUTPUT_DIR = '/Path/To/SaveFolder'
# as a function
def write_to_file(content, fpath, name):
the_file = os.path.join(fpath, name)
with open(the_file, 'w+', encoding=FORMAT) as t:
t.write(content)
def main():
print(f" Writing File...\n")
filename = f"{pcode}_{author}_{title}_text.txt"
write_to_file(multiline_var, OUTPUT_DIR, filename)
# or hard coded in main()
def main():
print(f" Writing File...\n")
filename = f"{pcode}_{author}_{title}_text.txt"
the_file = os.path.join(OUTPUT_DIR, filename)
with open(the_file, 'w+', encoding=FORMAT) as t:
t.write(multiline_var)
I have tried using w w+ wt and wt+ and with and without encoding='utf-8'
Here is an example of multi-line fstring variable:
# using triple quotes
multiline_var = f"""
[PROJ-{pcode}] {full_title} by {author}
{description}
{URL}
{DIVIDER_1}
{TEXT_BLURB}
Some text here and then {SOME_MORE_TEXT}"
{DIVIDER_1}
{SOME_LINK}
"""
# or inside parens
multiline_var = (
f"[PROJ-{pcode}] {full_title} by {author}\n"
f"{description}\n\n"
f"{URL}\n"
f"{DIVIDER_1}\n"
f"{TEXT_BLURB}\n\n"
f"Some text here and then {SOME_MORE_TEXT}\n"
f"{DIVIDER_1}\n\n"
f"{SOME_LINK}"
)
Using exiftool on the text file shows the following, so it looks the data is there but must be corrupted:
File Size : 1797 bytes
File Modification Date/Time : 2021:12:31 15:55:39-05:00
File Access Date/Time : 2021:12:31 15:58:13-05:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2021:12:31 15:55:39-05:00
File Permissions : -rw-r--r--
File Type : TXT
File Type Extension : txt
MIME Type : text/plain
MIME Encoding : utf-8
Byte Order Mark : No
Newlines : Unix LF
Line Count : 55
Word Count : 181
Not sure what I'm doing wrong. VScode shows no syntax errors in the script. There are no errors in Terminal when running the script. Have I made some simple mistake in the above code? Maybe the fstring variable is causing a problem?
Thanks to #bnaecker for leading me to the solution to this problem.
It appeared that when creating/writing to a text file with a long name, Python can corrupt it. Not sure why, as I save long names for images with Python image libraries all the time. Using a short name like "MyFile.txt" it worked just fine, but that was a red herring.
I have updated this post with my journey to the final solution for using the long names that are needed for my project, though I'm not sure why the problem exists.
First Attempts:
So far creating using a short name and then renaming to a long one.... attempts have failed. I did notice that python is locking the file it creates and never unlocks it. Not sure if this is the problem. Setting chflags with os.system('chflags nouchg') command does not work, not even with sudo, and not even in the Terminal doing it manually.
Using os.rename() in Python corrupts the file
Using os.system('mv oldFile.txt newFile.txt') corrupts the file
Manually using mv command in Terminal corrupts the file
Manually changing the filename in the Finder does not (wtf?)
I kept looking for workarounds but nothing did the job.
Round 2:
Progress!
After much tinkering, I discovered a hidden character inside the file. I ran cat /path/longfilename.txt in Terminal, selected and copied the output and pasted into VScode. Here is what I saw:
Somehow a hidden character is getting into the project code number.
Pasting it into a Unicode search engine it came up as a ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE also known in Unicode as EF BB BF. However, when pasting this symbol into TextMate it shows up as <U+FEFF> which is?...
The Byte Order Mark!
Opening a normal utf-8 text file in a hex editor also shows the files starting with EFBBBF for the BOM.
Now, the text file being read and parsed at first has no blank lines to start the file, so I added a line break, and also tried adding some spaces. This time when writing the file I could open it, however, after sending it to the trash, the same behavior occurred and the file was broken again. It seems that because other corrupted versions were in the trash, it added the symbol back to the file name for some reason.
So what appears to be happening, for whatever reason, when Python opens the text file I'm parsing that has no line break at the top, it seems to be grabbing the BOM from the file and adding that to the first variable which is grabbing the first line of the text file. Since that text is a number code that starts the file name, the BOM symbol is being added to the file name as well as the code inside the text file.
Just... wow
The Current Solution:
I have to leave a blank line at the start of the text file that I'm opening and parsing and a simple line break won't do it. I have no idea why this is. I added some spaces for good measure because randomly the BOM would be added to the variable and filename again. So far (knock on wood) as long as the first line of that initial file has some spaces and then a line break, and previous corrupted files have been deleted from the trash, a long file name can be used for all the files I'm creating and writing to without any problems.
This corruption even persists if I remove the encoding flag from both of the open functions I'm using (one to read and parse, the other to create and write).
If anyone knows why this is happening, please share. I've never seen it mentioned before. I'm not sure if it's a python 3.8 bug, a mac OS bug, the way TextMate wrote the original file, or a combination of these.
Correct Solution:
Thanks to #tripleee for the proper way to handle this, as I don't remember seeing this before, though I haven't been using python for very long.
In order to ignore the BOM, reading in the text file to be parsed with an encoding='utf-8-sig' does the job. Seems to be why it exists. :)
Problem solved.

setting a "checkpoint" in Pycharm

I am using Python 2.7 with Pycharm and I am working on a quite large text files; they are about 3gb in total.
I need to run LDA, PoS tagging, and other feature extraction methods on the data from the file but everytime I test my code, it has to read the file and go through the same process all over again from the beginning.
This is why I often use Jupyter because all the data / variables in previous cells are kept in memory.
Is there any way to do something similar with Pycharm?
For instance, let's say I am adding features to do_some_feature_extraction()
def do_some_feature_extraction(str_list):
# feature extraction 1
# feature extraction 2
str_list = []
with open("some_file.txt", "rb") as f_in:
for line in f_in:
str_list.append(line)
do_some_feature_extraction(str_list)
Let's say, there was an error on "feature extraction 1" and then I fixed it.
Then I will run the code again, then there will be another error on "feature extraction 2". Then I will fix it and run the code again from the beginning.
Instead of doing this, can I just set some sort of checkpoint before executing do_some_feature_extraction(str_list) ?
click the left side of your code ... next to the line number(or where the line number would be if you have them turned off)
a red dot should appear (this is called a breakpoint)...
now run it in debug mode
when you reach your breakpoint you can click the console tab
and then click the interactive terminal button(>_) to work directly with the context of the program

Why doesn't my bash script read lines from a file when called from a python script?

I am trying to write a small program in bash and part of it needs to be able to get some values from a txt file where the different files are separated by a line, and then either add each line to a variable or add each line to one array.
So far I have tried this:
FILE=$"transfer_config.csv"
while read line
do
MYARRAY[$index]="$line"
index=$(($index+1))
done < $FILE
echo ${MYARRAY[0]}
This just produces a blank line though, and not what was on the first line of the config file.
I am not returned with any errors which is why I am not too sure why this is happening.
The bash script is called though a python script using os.system("$HOME/bin/mcserver_config/server_transfer/down/createRemoteFolder"), but if I simply call it after the python program has made the file which the bash script reads, it works.
I am almost 100% sure it is not an issue with the directories, because pwd at the top of the bash script shows it in the correct directory, and the python program is also creating the data file in the correct place.
Any help is much appreciated.
EDIT:
I also tried the subprocess.call("path_to_script", shell=True) to see if it would make a difference, I know it is unlikely but it didn't.
I suspect that when calling the bash script from python, having just created the file, you are not really finished with that file: you should either explicitly close the file or use a with construct.
Otherwise, the written data is still in any buffer (from the file object, or in the OS, or wherever). Only closing (or at least flushing) the file makes sure the data is indeed in the file.
BTW, instead of os.system, you should use the subprocess module...

Using windows scheduler to run python script with inputs

I have a difficult problem. I want to setup windows scheduler to run a python script every day. To make my program simple, I want to:
start with input 10 today, add 5, return 15
start with yesterday's return, add 5, return the value (start with 15, add 5, return 20)
......
etc
Does anyone know if this is possible?
you could write the return to a text file then the next day the program reads the text file and starts with the number it reads from the text file then re-writes the new value to the text file
this way you can save data while the program isnt running and retreive it later
Hope that help :)
Create a .py file with your code in it. You can keep track of the numbers in a text file or XML document and read/parse as necessary on a daily basis, then overwrite, pass it as an argument (data.txt or xml). Create it initially with the starting value.
I'd format it as XML, since Python has a bunch of nice XML Parsers.
<xml>
<data>10</data>
</xml>
Drop the following into a batch or cmd file (.bat, .cmd)
c:\<path_to_python>\python.exe c:\<full_path>\yourfile.py c:\<full_path>\data.xml
Schedule the batch to run in Windows Scheduler using proper credentials.

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