How to duplicate sys.stdout to a log file?

I had this same issue before and found this snippet very useful: 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 flush(self): self.file.flush() from: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-May/438106.html