Can't write Option values to Prc file

Scripting Issues
1

I’ve been trying to save player options (keybinds, etc.) to a prc file by first constructing two lists of configVariableStrings, and then using the following bit of code:

print("running save")
writer = open("options.prc", "w")
for i in textOps:
    writer.write(i.get_name() + ' ' + i.get_string_value() +'\n')
for i in keybinds:
    writer.write(i.get_name() + ' ' + i.get_string_value()+ '\n')
    print(i.get_string_value())
writer.flush()
writer.close()

Bizarrely, no matter what I do, the existing prc file is not modified, nor is a new file even created, assuming it would create one in the directory this script is, as opposed to main.py.
Does anyone know of any “proper” methods of saving configVariables?

2

Hmm, it’s actually a regular python object for file system input and output.

A quick test showed that it works.

from direct.showbase.ShowBase import ShowBase

class MyApp(ShowBase):
    def __init__(self):
        ShowBase.__init__(self)
        
        file = open('config.prc', 'w')
        file.write("config " + "param" + "\n")
        file.close()

app = MyApp()
app.run()
3

If I’m understanding correctly that this script is run by the program in “main.py”, then I would expect to find the resulting file in the directory of the latter, not the former, I believe.

4

Things are getting more bizarre… I guess writing files doesn’t work when running inside visual studio, but it does work when using panda3d’s python.exe or ppython.exe… and yet, this somehow causes a crash when I right-click → open with → python… which, is just peachy because that’s the only way of running it I don’t know how to view the console output.

Edit: the version of python that’s crashing is indeed ppython, making this all the more confusing, as running save() with the app opened via cmd works just fine…

6

The initial issue turned out to be that file-saving seems to be more-or-less interrupted when running python through visual studio.
After that, I discovered that running main.py via right-clicking → open with → python leads to the file write failing due to insufficient permissions.

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