How to execute a python script and write output to txt file?

Question

I\'m executing a .py file, which spits out a give string. This command works fine

execfile (\'file.py\')

But I want the output (in addition to it being shown

Answer 1

what your doing is checking the output of execfile('file.py') against the string 'output.txt'

you can do what you want to do with subprocess

#!/usr/bin/env python
import subprocess
with open("output.txt", "w+") as output:
    subprocess.call(["python", "./script.py"], stdout=output);