? WinNT sys.stdout and re-direction

[Paul D. Lusk]

I'm new to Python and I'm trying to run some scripts.
System is WinNT, output via sys.stdout.write(). Redirecting output to
file results in any empty file, for example:

At the NT command prompt:

script.py in.txt 

writes output to the screen,

but

script.py in.txt>out.txt

gives me a empty out.txt

Could somebody point me in the right direction to fix this?