How to save python screen output to a text file

Question

I\'m new to Python. I need to query items from a dict and save the result to a text file. Here\'s what I have:

import json
import exec.fullog as e

input = e         


        

Answer 1

Let me summarize all the answers and add some more.

• To write to a file from within your script, user file I/O tools that are provided by Python (this is the f=open('file.txt', 'w') stuff.

• If don't want to modify your program, you can use stream redirection (both on windows and on Unix-like systems). This is the python myscript > output.txt stuff.

• If you want to see the output both on your screen and in a log file, and if you are on Unix, and you don't want to modify your program, you may use the tee command (windows version also exists, but I have never used it)

• Even better way to send the desired output to screen, file, e-mail, twitter, whatever is to use the logging module. The learning curve here is the steepest among all the options, but in the long run it will pay for itself.