I think it is related to Python issues my distro has had with updates. Thanks a ton for your help, greatly appreciated. I'm going to try on distro forum and report back here if any luck

Saved that as torrenttest.sh and chmod+x, it works:

I used other torrent ID as that one was just for testing script and I deleted it:

Okay I did this, but it's freezing my deluge now when it executes. Checking PIDs I see: psaux deluge bobby 1599 0.8 0.8 73760 28544 ? Sl Jun28 13:24 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/deluged bobby 1604 0.3 0.4 22372 16460 ? S Jun28 6:02 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/deluge-web -f bobby 1809 0.2 0.2 15816 6752 p...

Ok I used that as torrentID.py and did:
So it works, but only manually?

Okay this is what I have put: #!/bin/bash torrentid=$1 torrentname=$2 torrentpath=$3 torrenttimedelta=`python /home/bobby/scripts/deluge/torrentTimeDelta.py $1` subject="Started download new torrent!" message="$torrentname to $torrentpath" echo -e `date`"::Finished downloadi...

Thanks! How should I call it from my script? Just pass it $1 and it will return a string. Sorry mate I'm pretty bad with bash lol, my script is: #!/bin/bash torrentid=$1 torrentname=$2 torrentpath=$3 subject="Started download new torrent!" message="$torrentname to $torrentpath" ...

Thanks! How should I call it from my script?

I see Active Time and Seeding Time, and the math is simple enough of course, but I have an automated script to send me an email when torrent is complete, and I'm wondering how I can add in the email a little blurb with the time it took to complete the torrent download? This is the email script I am ...

I am using this script (modified to torrent_complete.sh intead of added) and it works great (note: I did have to restart the deluge daemon but tested and working now). Just a question, in the bash script you have the lines subject="Started download new torrent!" message="$torrentname ...