Write both in std output and in a file ?

[Chris Gonnerman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Swartzleonard" <starx at pacbell.net>

[...]
> before you use the file, and optinally
> 
>     out_file.close

You forgot the parens... should be

    out_file.close()
 
> after you're done (in python it's done automaticly when the file 
> variable gets destroied, so it's not AS big an issue as C and such)

Actually C does the auto-close also (at least on all platforms I've 
worked on).  C and Python succeed and/or fail at this under the same 
circumstances.