Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Mark Lawrence Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: [Beginner] - Hanging in the code, can't figure out what's wrong Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 01:11:55 +0100 Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <66afb6f1-ca2b-4f9b-a1ec-ed255fa3030f@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de VrPSEGqzXNCcIb2CDd3DjAlBx9UkDbWOqedM3O+Ol9Rw== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:: [': 0.03; 'resulting': 0.04; '(python': 0.05; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.05; 'test,': 0.05; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'filename.': 0.09; 'question?': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'file,': 0.15; '2016': 0.16; '6:30': 0.16; 'clues': 0.16; 'hangs.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'return,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'input': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; '>>>': 0.20; 'hey': 0.20; 'lawrence': 0.22; 'sat,': 0.23; 'skip:( 40': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'followed': 0.27; 'subject:what': 0.29; 'tutorial': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'url:mailman': 0.30; 'code': 0.30; 'becomes': 0.30; 'supposed': 0.31; 'post': 0.31; 'language.': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.33; 'michael': 0.33; 'url:listinfo': 0.34; 'file': 0.34; 'path': 0.35; 'asking': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.36; 'received:org': 0.37; 'list.': 0.37; "won't": 0.38; 'wrong': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'subject:the': 0.39; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'where': 0.40; 'mark': 0.40; 'press': 0.61; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'skip:n 10': 0.62; 'saturday,': 0.63; 'more': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; '>>>>>': 0.66; 'picked': 0.66; 'course.': 0.67; 'prompt': 0.79; 'online,': 0.83; 'batchelder': 0.84; 'pythonistas,': 0.84; 'utc-4,': 0.84; 'abc': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.234.189.93 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:106332 On 02/04/2016 23:37, Michael Selik wrote: > I might be overlooking something, but raw_input (Python 2) and input > (Python 3) won't return the input from sys.stdin until you type ENTER. Or > did I misunderstand the question? > > On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 6:30 PM BartC wrote: > >> On 02/04/2016 23:16, Ned Batchelder wrote: >>> On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 6:09:13 PM UTC-4, BartC wrote: >>>> On 02/04/2016 22:59, Loop.IO wrote: >>>>> Hey >>>>> >>>>> So I built a keylogger using python as a test, got the code from the >> tutorial online, I want to improve on it to make it more automated, but the >> issue I'm having is it won't create the file until I press return, any >> clues where I'm going wrong? >>>>> >>>>> If I press return it makes the batch file, otherwise it just hangs. >>>> >>>>> name=raw_input ('C:\\Documents\\PythonCoding\\')+'launch2.bat' >>>> >>>> You're asking for a file name to be entered. So that if ABC is pressed, >>>> followed by Enter, it will use: >>>> >>>> C:\Documents\PythonCoding\ABClaunch2.bat >>> >>> That line of code will prompt the user: >>> >>> C:\Documents\PythonCoding\ >>> >>> then the user enters ABC: >>> >>> C:\Documents\PythonCoding\ABC >>> >>> and raw_input returns "ABC", so name becomes "ABClaunch2.bat". >> >> Yes, of course. I ran the code and picked up the wrong line even though >> I printed out 'name'! >> >> But, it does look as though that path is supposed to form part of the >> resulting filename. >> >> -- >> Bartc >> -- >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> BartC is renowned for knowing nothing about Python by his own admittance, and would you please not top post on the list. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence