I found some code online that generally works, but I want to use it multiple times in the same program (write different things to different files, while still printing to the screen the whole time). That is to say, when it closes, I think sys.stdout closes, so printing at all, and using this class again fails. I tried reimporting sys, and other dumb stuff, but I can't get it to work. Here's the site, and the code groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d25a9f5608e473af/ import sys class MyWriter: def __init__(self, stdout, filename): self.stdout = stdout self.logfile = file(filename, 'a') def write(self, text): self.stdout.write(text) self.logfile.write(text) def close(self): # self.stdout.close() self.logfile.close() writer = MyWriter(sys.stdout, 'log.txt') sys.stdout = writer print 'test' Continue reading...