import sys, datetime, shutil if len(sys.argv) == 1: try: with open('notes.txt', 'r') as f: shutil.copyfileobj(f, sys.stdout) except IOError: pass else: with open('notes.txt', 'a') as f: f.write(datetime.datetime.now().isoformat() + '\n') f.write("\t%s\n" % ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))