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

using some hints from Remolten in the above posts and some other links I have written the following:

from os import listdir
from os.path import isfile, join
folderpath = "/Users/nupadhy/Downloads"
filenames = [A for A in listdir(folderpath) if isfile(join(folderpath,A))]
newlistfiles = ("\n".join(filenames))
OuttxtFile = open('listallfiles.txt', 'w')
OuttxtFile.write(newlistfiles)
OuttxtFile.close()

The code above is to list all files in my download folder. It saves the output to the output to listallfiles.txt. If the file is not there it will create and replace it with a new every time to run this code. Only thing you need to be mindful of is that it will create the output file in the folder where your py script is saved. See how you go, hope it helps.