how to output coordinate values of feature class to text file

Question

In the database there is list of feature classes. the codes below can successfully print the x, y of each point of each feature in the feature class. the comment part # is not working, and I dont know how to write the coordinate values of the points to a text file.

arcpy.env.workspace = 'database'
fc='file1'
outpath='output Directory' 
cursor=arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc, ["OID@","SHAPE@"])
#output=open("result.txt","w")
for row in cursor: #iterate the rows in the table
    print ("Feature {0}: ".format(row[0]))
    for point in row[1].getPart(0):
        print ("{0},{1}".format(point.X, point.Y))  
        #output.write(str(point.X)+""+str(point.Y)+"\n")
        #read_data = output.read()
        #print read_data
#output.close()

Any help is appreciated !

the new codes look like:

arcpy.env.workspace = 'database'
fc='file1'
outpath='output Directory' 
cursor=arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc, ["OID@","SHAPE@"])
with open('result.txt', 'w') as output:
    for row in cursor: #iterate the rows in the table
        for point in row[1].getPart(0):
            output.write(str(point.X)+""+str(point.Y)+"\n")
            print os.path.isfile('result.txt')
output.close()

Answer 1

Okay, I checked this with my own python session, and apparently the way to write something to file is .close() it after work. Uncomment your code and write:

output.close()

...after it. Somehow, even better way to work with files (according to python's documentation) is using with statement:

>>> with open('workfile', 'r') as output:
...     read_data = output.read()
>>> output.closed
True

In your case, write your code below "with open" at indented place. Hope it helped.

Edit: This with statement above is just an example from python's documentation. In your case I suggest trying:

arcpy.env.workspace = 'database'
fc='file1'
cursor=arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc, ["OID@","SHAPE@"])
with open('result.txt', 'w') as output:
    for row in cursor: #iterate the rows in the table
        print ("Feature {0}: ".format(row[0]))
        for point in row[1].getPart(0):
            print ("{0},{1}".format(point.X, point.Y))  
            output.write(str(point.X)+""+str(point.Y)+"\n")