writing arcpy.GetMessages() to a text file?

KeithD1

Is there anything wrong with this very simplistic way of writing geo-processing messages to a plain text file? Being new to Python, I was surprised it was this easy....I must be overlooking something!

To clarify, I am intending to write the messages from the last tool which was invoked in the script.

f <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> open<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>resultLogFile<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"a"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

s <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> str<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>GetMessages<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
f<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>write<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>s<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

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Anonymous User

 

How do you script out the location of the txt file / is there more to the script than what has been shared on this thread.

I am wanting to extract the Message from geocoding results and log them in a txt file with the corresponding txt file that is created when you "Save A Python Script", since doing that does not bring along the messages.

In this thread it is said to manually copy and paste the messages to a txt file directly from the GP History log pane in Pro

 

https://community.esri.com/t5/modelbuilder-questions/model-builder-can-i-write-text-from-results-window-outputs-to/td-p/857924

 

It would be nice to be able to run weekly geocoder rebuilds and geocode our address data against our actual and theoretical address ranges along with a fishbone analysis to track and log the progress and accuracy of our address data, especially since this data is shared with our communications people.