CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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pirulo
pirulo

Reputation: 385

create a file from user input

Anyone can help me on this task. I'm new to Python. I'm trying to accomplished this: The filename should be hardcode name called: Server_Information.txt and and the second column should be inserted by the user input but the date stamp. Built By : john doe Build Date: %d%m%y Build Reason: Playground Requestor: john doe

Maybe I can use this test script but the first column does not show in the final test file.

Thank you for anyone it helps

from sys import argv

script, filename = argv

print "We're going to erase %r." % filename
print "If you don't want that, hit CTRL-C (^C)."
print "If you do want that, hit RETURN."

raw_input("?")

print "Opening the file..."
target = open(filename, 'w')

print "Truncating the file.  Goodbye!"
target.truncate()

print "Now I'm going to ask you for three lines."

line1 = raw_input("Built By : ")
line2 = raw_input("Build Date: %d%m%y ")
line3 = raw_input("Build Reason: ")
line4 = raw_input("Requestor: ")

print "I'm going to write these to the file."

target.write(line1)
target.write("\n")
target.write(line2)
target.write("\n")
target.write(line3)
target.write("\n")
target.write(line4)

print "And finally, we close it."
target.close()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 140

Answers (3)

WKPlus
WKPlus

Reputation: 7255

Since raw_input returns only the input entered by user, not include the messages you used to prompt, so you need to add those messages to line1 manually, like this:

line1 = "Built By : " + raw_input("Built By : ")

And for line2 I think you want to generate it automatically instead of asking user to enter, you can do it like this:

line2 = "Build Date: " + time.strftime("%d%m%Y", time.localtime())

Upvotes: 0

Roosh
Roosh

Reputation: 1024

Try to write this, because now you do not record the invitation as a file.

target.write('%s: %s\n' % ('Built By', line1))
target.write('%s: %s\n' % ('Build Date', line2))
target.write('%s: %s\n' % ('Build Reason', line3))
target.write('%s: %s\n' % ('Requestor', line4))

Upvotes: 0

nisargap
nisargap

Reputation: 25

Try closing and reopening the file after the truncate() 

 target.close()
 target = open(filename, 'w')
 # ask for user input here
 # and close file

Upvotes: 1

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