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

To complete John T answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/616686/395687

I added __enter__ and __exit__ methods to use it as a context manager with the with keyword, which gives this code

class Tee(object):
    def __init__(self, name, mode):
        self.file = open(name, mode)
        self.stdout = sys.stdout
        sys.stdout = self

    def __del__(self):
        sys.stdout = self.stdout
        self.file.close()

    def write(self, data):
        self.file.write(data)
        self.stdout.write(data)

    def __enter__(self):
        pass

    def __exit__(self, _type, _value, _traceback):
        pass

It can then be used as

with Tee('outfile.log', 'w'):
    print('I am written to both stdout and outfile.log')