Not able to write output of python script to text file in Windows

Question

I am using a python script to extract the tweets from twitter. I want to write the output into a text file.

When I run the .py file from Anaconda command prompt, it shows me the output in the command prompt. But when I try to write the same output to a file, it doesn't write anything.

C:\Users\akjain>python c:\Akash\TweetExtract.py >> twitter_data.txt

I have tried to open the Ananconda as an Administrator too. Also created the text file in the same folder where I have python script before running the script. I also tried the below code but this also did not work.

C:\windows\system32>python c:\Akash\GartnerTweetExtract.py > c:\Akash\twitter_data.txt

Edit:

Code to print the ouput to command prompt which is inside my python script is as follows:

#This is a basic listener that just prints received tweets to stdout.
class StdOutListener(StreamListener):
 def on_data(self, data):
 print (data)
 return True
 def on_error(self, status):
 print (status)

Any help would be really appreciated.

Regards, Akash

• Mohit Motwani: Can you please show the snippet of your code that does the file operation?
• Akash: Hi Mohit, I have the code to print the fetched tweet in cmd.. class StdOutListener(StreamListener): def on_data(self, data): print (data) return True def on_error(self, status): print (status)
• Mohit Motwani: Add it to your question. It's easier for everyone that way.
• Mohit Motwani: There are no file operations in your code.
• Akash: I actually wanted to accept the answer. But somehow your answer was not visible the moment I accepted the other answer.

Answer 1

So my best guess is that you are facing permission issues. Why don't you copy the file to C:\Users\akjain> and run

python TweetExtract.py > your-file.txt

Answer 2

You can store your output in text file using following code snippet, this way you can also check what error it's throwing in case of failure.

class StdOutListener(StreamListener):
 def on_data(self, data):
 print (data)
 with open('twitter_data.txt', 'w') as f:
 f.write(data)
 return True
 def on_error(self, status):
 print (status)

• Akash: tried this and it worked fine. Actually there was 2-3 mins delay in writing it to file . So I was thinking its not writing at all. Surprised to see it fetches the twitter data so slow.. Thank you for your help.