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

This is very simple, just make use of this example

import sys
with open("test.txt", 'w') as sys.stdout:
    print("hello")

Answer 2

A quick and dirty hack to do this within the script is to direct the screen output to a file:

import sys 

stdoutOrigin=sys.stdout 
sys.stdout = open("log.txt", "w")

and then reverting back to outputting to screen at the end of your code:

sys.stdout.close()
sys.stdout=stdoutOrigin

This should work for a simple code, but for a complex code there are other more formal ways of doing it such as using Python logging.

Answer 3

abarnert's answer is very good and pythonic. Another completely different route (not in python) is to let bash do this for you:

$ python myscript.py > myoutput.txt

This works in general to put all the output of a cli program (python, perl, php, java, binary, or whatever) into a file, see How to save entire output of bash script to file for more.

Answer 4

We can simply pass the output of python inbuilt print function to a file after opening the file with the append option by using just two lines of code:

with open('filename.txt', 'a') as file:
    print('\nThis printed data will store in a file', file=file)

Hope this may resolve the issue...

Note: this code works with python3 however, python2 is not being supported currently.