Logging output from python

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Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> At Thursday 7/12/2006 23:21, Cameron Walsh wrote:
>
> > > Here is my problem. I want to log everything displayed in the screen
> > > after I start the main python script. Things include unhandled
> > > exceptions , message from print statement and other sources.
> > > Basically, if it is displayed on the screen, I want to log it..
> >
> >If it's on linux you can just redirect the screen output to a file:
> >
> >python initialfile.py 1>stdout.txt 2>stderr.txt
> >[...]
> >
> >As for windows, I'll test it now...
> >
> >It turns out you can at least redirect the output to a file, I'm not
> >sure what it does with standard error or even if it exists or not.
> >
> >python initialfile.py > output.txt
>
> It's the same syntax as noted for linux above. 1> is the same as > alone.
>
> If ALL the testing is done on a single program (that is, no os.system
> or spawn or subprocess...) then you could just replace sys.stdout and
> sys.stderr with another open file (or file-like) object.
>
Redirection in Windows is explained here:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/redirection.mspx?mfr=true