From @larsoleruben on July 27, 2017 11:0

Environment data

VS Code version: 1.14.2
Python Extension version: 0.6.9 (22 July 2017)
Python Version: 3.6
OS and version: Windows 8.1

Actual behavior

This will not write to the file during debugging

myFile = open('c:/temp/test.txt', 'w')
a = myFile.write('ddsdsdsds\n')
print(a)
myFile.close

This correctly writes to the file during debugging

with open('c:/temp/test.txt', 'w') as outfile:
    a=outfile.write("sdsdsdsdsd\n")
    print(a)

Expected behavior

The above code should both write to the file. also during debugging

Steps to reproduce:

Excute above

If the script is executed from the console, both methods works
Also the code works nomally in Visual Studio, and also Visual Studio Code for Mac.
Only win 8.1 seems to have a problem.

Logs

Output from Python output panel
Nothing

Output from ```Console window``` (Help->Developer Tools menu)
Nothing

Copied from original issue: DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode#1125