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Kidnaps
Kidnaps

Reputation: 19

How to pick a file when writing the name

Ok, so I have .txt files of each of these names below, I want the user to be able to pick a name, then that .txt is opened and printed. Does anyone know how I would do this? the main problem is the f = open('name.txt','r') where it is normal like this. I thought it would be something like this f = open(name'.txt','r') but this gives me an invalid syntax. I am quite new to all of this, it would be amazing if someone could help me out. This is Python btw :D

print("""here is the list of names.
John
Garry
Tom
Jim
Bob
Jerry
Timmy""")
name=input("please type the name you would like: ")
f = open('name.txt','r')
message = f.read()
print(message)
f.close()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 49

Answers (2)

BLang
BLang

Reputation: 990

In order to open the correct file, you should do whats called a string concatenation:

print("""here is the list of names.
John
Garry
Tom
Jim
Bob
Jerry
Timmy""")
name = str(input("please type the name you would like: "))
f = open(name + '.txt','r')
message = f.read()
print(message)
f.close()

Can you paste the syntax error perhaps in case i am missing something else?

Upvotes: 0

sacuL
sacuL

Reputation: 51365

You just need to create your name file by concatenating name and the string ".txt", which you can do with the + operator:

name=input("please type the name you would like: ")
f = open(name + '.txt','r')
message = f.read()
print(message)
f.close()

Or, to make it more consise, the following is completely equivalent:

name=input("please type the name you would like: ")
with open(name + '.txt', 'r') as f:
    print(f.read())

Upvotes: 3

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