Appending a log file and see progress as program executes

[Matteo]

On May 30, 1:29 pm, Matteo <mah... at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> - Write an autoflush class:
>   class AutoFlush:
>     def __init__(self, stream):
>         self.stream = stream
>     def write(self, text):
>         self.stream.write(text)
>         self.stream.flush()
>
>   ...
>   flog=open('out.log','a')
>   flog=AutoFlush(flog)
>
>   print >>flog,"I'm a message!"
Oops! According to another thread, this won't work for files (but will
work for stdio/stderr)
Check the thread entitled "print bypasses calling write method for
objects inheriting from file?"