Thanks - this is cleaner than what I was using for something similar. Here's my version: import datetime user_input = raw_input("Log entry: ") with open(

Thanks - this is cleaner than what I was using for something similar. Here's my version: import datetime user_input = raw_input("Log entry: ") with open("did.log", "a") as timelog: timelog.write('\n') timelog.write(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M (%a)")) timelog.write(': ') timelog.write(user_input)