Syntax changes between Python 3 and Python 2 when writing to a log file

Question

My job currently utilizes python 2.7 for scripting. However, I'm currently working on script with python 3.7. Normally, when we need to write to a log file the code looks like this:

log = file(r'\\server\blah\result.log', 'w')

print >>log, 'BEGIN DAILY REPORT ' + strftime("%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S", localtime()) + '\n

However, in 3.7 I'm getting this error: "NameError: name 'file' is not defined". Is this the result of syntax changes? Forgive me as I'm new to python.

Answer 1

To open a file in Python 3.x, you need to use open(filename, mode) .

Look here for more information and examples.