Python - Redirecting output of print to a file

The print function can also be used to write to a file. The output of print, that is by default, sent to the screen can be redirected to an open file. For this, you have to supply the file object as an argument for the named parameter file. Here is an example:

x = 3567

with open('data2.txt', 'w') as f:

print('Ultimate Python', x, file=f)

The output produced by print will be written to data2.txt file. The value of variable x will be stored as sequence of 4 characters not as an integer, since we are working in text mode. When we write to a file using the print function, the newline will automatically be written since that is the default behaviour of print. If we want to suppress it, we can supply an argument for the named parameter end. This redirection of output to a file using the print function will work only in text mode.