How to redirect complete output of a cron script

Question

I have a simple cronjob running every day at 18:35:

05 18 * * * ~/job.sh 2>&1 >> ~/job.log

So the output of ~/job.sh should be

Answer 1

You need to redirect the output of the python script. Learning Python 2nd Edition recommends the following:

import sys
sys.stdout = open('log.txt', 'a')   # Redirects output to file
...
print x, y, x                       # shows up in log.txt

and goes on to say:

"Here, we reset sys.stdout to a maually-opened output file object opened in append mode. After the reset, every print statement anywhere in the program will write its text to the end of file log.txt. instead of the original output stream."