FeatureClassToGeodatabase in stand-alone script not working

[GabrielMarcus1]

I'm having problems with a stand-alone script that uses the FeatureClassToGeodatabase function. When executing it in the IDE, the print statement executes with the output below which looks correct. 

The code executes fine within the AGP python window, but doesn't work when executing from PyCharm. 

I'm not new to executing stand-alone scripts, but I can't figure this out!

homeDir = r"E:\ArcGIS\Projects\del_testingMDR"
fileName = r"del_testingMDR.aprx"
aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject(os.path.join(homeDir, fileName))
aprxMap = aprx.listMaps("Map")[0]

def AddSHPtoGDB(r):
    """
    :param r: function is called during iteration over region list. r is a single region string
    :return:
    """
    input_files = []
    for wx in wx_vars:
        for file in os.listdir(ndfd_output + "/" + r):
            if file.endswith(".shp"):
                if file.lower().startswith(wx.lower()):
                    input_files.append(os.path.join(ndfd_output, r, file))
        in_features = input_files
        out_location = r"E:\ArcGIS\Projects\del_testingMDR\wwa_Import.gdb"
        arcpy.FeatureClassToGeodatabase_conversion(in_features,out_location)
        print("adding {} to {}".format(in_features,out_location))

in_features
['C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12011800.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12011900.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12012000.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12012100.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12012200.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12012300.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12020000.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12020100.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12020200.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12020300.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12020400.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12020500.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12020600.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12020700.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12020800.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12020900.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12021000.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12021100.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12021200.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12021300.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12021400.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12021500.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12021600.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12021700.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12021800.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12021900.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12022000.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12022100.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12022200.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12022300.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12030000.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12030100.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12030200.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12030300.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12030400.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12030500.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12030600.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12030700.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12030800.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12030900.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12031000.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12031100.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12031200.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12031300.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12031400.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12031500.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12031600.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12031700.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12031800.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12031900.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12032000.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12032100.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12032200.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12032300.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12040000.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12040600.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12041200.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12041800.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12050000.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12050600.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12051200.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12051800.shp', 'C:\\ndfd\\degrib\\output\\conus\\WWA_12060000.shp']

out_location
'E:\\ArcGIS\\Projects\\del_testingMDR\\wwa_Import.gdb'

[DanPatterson]

doesn't work... does that mean there is nothing in the gdb when you refresh and check its contents? or that you got an error in pycharm?

[GabrielMarcus1]

Yes when executing it from pyCharm, there's nothing in the GDB.
There were no errors in pyCharm though.

[DanPatterson]

is the part of the script you are using missing the lines where you run the def?

[GabrielMarcus1]

yes. It 's below.  I was hoping there was something that you would see that I missed. 

AddSHPtoGDB("wwa")