ouput redirection..a newbie question

[Gautam Pagedar]

Hello,

	i am new to python and need a basic answer. Hope someone would help me
solve this.

I want to execute a command ls -l and sore its result in a file.

>>import sys
>>import os
>>os.system("ls -al")

executes the command how can i redirect the to a file like we do in
shell script using a redirection operator.


Waiting for reply.

Regards,
Gautam Pagedar.