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Gurnoor
Gurnoor

Reputation: 133

My code isn't writing to the text file but I'm not getting any errors

I am a beginner with python and I have started to develop a simple program that will scrape the current bitcoin price from a website every 5 minutes, detect the change from the previous scrape, print this information and also write it into a text file. My current code does all of this, except it fails to write it into the text document, I have no clue why.

I'm pretty sure the error is in the write() function, because that's where the error message points to, but I can include the full code if anyone thinks that that is the issue.

def write():
    global change
    nps = str(newPrice) + ' USD'
    writeThis = nps + ' ' + writeChange
    f.write(writeThis) 
    f.write('\n')
    print(writeThis)

with open("bitcoinPrice.txt","w+") as f:
        while True:
            getCost()
            calcChange()
            write()

As I'm very new to python, I understand that there are probably much better approaches to a lot of my code, and I'm completely open to suggestions!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 54

Answers (1)

Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 396

You need to pass the file object f to write():

def write(f):  # <-- file object
    global change
    nps = str(newPrice) + ' USD'
    writeThis = nps + ' ' + writeChange
    f.write(writeThis)
    f.write('\n')
    print(writeThis)

with open("bitcoinPrice.txt","w+") as f:
        while True:
            getCost()
            calcChange()
            write(f)  # <-- write needs to know what to write to

Upvotes: 1

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