How to duplicate sys.stdout to a log file?

Question

Edit: Since it appears that there\'s either no solution, or I\'m doing something so non-standard that nobody knows - I\'ll revise my question to also ask: What is the best w

Answer 1

You can also add stderr as well, based on shx2's answer above using class multifile :

class Log(object):

    def __init__(self, path_log, mode="w", encoding="utf-8"):
        h = open(path_log, mode, encoding=encoding)
        sys.stdout = multifile([ sys.stdout, h ])
        sys.stderr = multifile([ sys.stderr, h ])

    def __enter__(self):
        """ Necessary if called by with (or with... as) """
        return self     # only necessary if "as"

    def __exit__(self, type, value, tb):
        """ Necessary if call by with """
        pass

    def __del__(self):
        if sys is not None:
            # restoring
            sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__
            sys.stderr = sys.__stderr__

log = Log("test.txt")
print("line 1")
print("line 2", file=sys.stderr)
del log
print("line 3 only on screen")