create a file from user input

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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()

nisargap · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-10 05:36:14Z

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Try closing and reopening the file after the truncate()

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

answered Oct 10, 2014 at 5:36

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Roosh · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-10 05:45:47Z

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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))

edited Oct 10, 2014 at 5:45

answered Oct 10, 2014 at 5:40

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pirulo Over a year ago

Same here I replacing my target.write with yours and is not working is giving me error.

WKPlus · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-10 06:13:31Z

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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())

edited Oct 10, 2014 at 6:13

answered Oct 10, 2014 at 6:08

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pirulo Over a year ago

WKplus, Thank you for you input. I cannot get it to work. I'm getting error name not defined. I run in a debugger mode. python -m pdb script.py but as son I put the name of the file it dies.

WKPlus Over a year ago

@pirulo You need to add import time before you use time.strftime .

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