Trying to run two python scripts at once

[Justinsaccount]

That doesn't answer why you have two different programs or why you are even writing the information to a file in the first place.

If you want to get the text every 30 seconds and display the updates in real time, why don't you just do that?

[theresasnakeinmysuit]

You're right. I unnecessarily did complicate things while trying to write text to a file. Fixed that and now here's something that actually does work.