Redirect output from interactive logging python script to text file on Mac

Question

I am working with a python logging script which is interactive (requires user inputs at times) and would like the output to be both in my terminal shell as well as to a text file. The logging is very verbose, so I can't just copy from the shell as some go past the terminal history.

I was wondering if there was a way to do this. I'm even open to executing a separate shell script which calls the python script if that enables things easier.

Answer 1

The tee command (part of coreutils) does that. Example usage:

the_script.py | tee the_script.log

This will write the script output (STDOUT) to the log file and STDOUT.