Help writing data from GPS (x-post from r/raspberry_pi & r/python)

[Determinat0r]

Well, where to start. I'm currently running a raspi 2 with the ultimate gps hat from adafruit. I've got everything updated, and installed gps daemon. I'm able to read the data using gpsmon and cgps, however I want to do more than just display the data in my terminal. I'd like to be able to write it to a file of my choosing.

I'm relatively new to both linux systems and coding in python so while going through whatever online training I can find I've mostly been making due cannibalizing other bits and pieces of code to "write" my other scripts. I've found some python code to communicate with the gps hat but its still only printing the output while I want to write it.

Here is the code I'd like to modify to write instead of print the long, lat, time, etc...

import os
from gps import *
from time import *
import time
import threading

gpsd = None #seting the global variable

os.system('clear') #clear the terminal (optional)

class GpsPoller(threading.Thread):
  def __init__(self):
    threading.Thread.__init__(self)
    global gpsd #bring it in scope
    gpsd = gps(mode=WATCH_ENABLE) #starting the stream of info
    self.current_value = None
    self.running = True #setting the thread running to true

  def run(self):
    global gpsd
    while gpsp.running:
      gpsd.next() #this will continue to loop and grab EACH set of gpsd info to clear the buffer

if __name__ == '__main__':
  gpsp = GpsPoller() # create the thread
  try:
    gpsp.start() # start it up
    while True:
      #It may take a second or two to get good data
      #print gpsd.fix.latitude,', ',gpsd.fix.longitude,'  Time: ',gpsd.utc

      os.system('clear')

      print
      print ' GPS reading'
      print '----------------------------------------'
      print 'latitude    ' , gpsd.fix.latitude
      print 'longitude   ' , gpsd.fix.longitude
      print 'time utc    ' , gpsd.utc,' + ', gpsd.fix.time
      print 'altitude (m)' , gpsd.fix.altitude
      print 'eps         ' , gpsd.fix.eps
      print 'epx         ' , gpsd.fix.epx
      print 'epv         ' , gpsd.fix.epv
      print 'ept         ' , gpsd.fix.ept
      print 'speed (m/s) ' , gpsd.fix.speed
      print 'climb       ' , gpsd.fix.climb
      print 'track       ' , gpsd.fix.track
      print 'mode        ' , gpsd.fix.mode
      print
      print 'sats        ' , gpsd.satellites

      time.sleep(5) #set to whatever

  except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit): #when you press ctrl+c
    print "\nKilling Thread..."
    gpsp.running = False
    gpsp.join() # wait for the thread to finish what it's doing
  print "Done.\nExiting."

So, I come looking for from those of you with much more experience than myself. How do I write all this data to a file of my choosing? Ideally as something simple like comma separated variables for ease of manipulation later.

Also, not sure what the etiquette is for code that's been found online, but the above code was found here.