My First Script - Looking For Help

[dsorci]

Hello Everybody,

This is my first script, and I am looking for advice...

I am trying to get the variable "response" to populate in another variable called body.

You can see here what I'm trying to do. I tried the following

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def get_hostname():     response = raw_input("Please enter your name: ")     body = '[{"hostname": "response"}]'

...and...

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def get_hostname():     response = raw_input("Please enter your name: ")     body = '[{"hostname": "print(response)"}]'

And I tried other variations but I can't seem to find the right way to do this.

Any help would be appreciated.

[wavic]

This section if for completed scripts.

However...
I presume that you want this:

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def get_hostname():     response = raw_input("Please enter your name: ")     body = '[{"hostname": response}]' # without the quotes response will contain the input. Do you want body to be a string?     return body

The print function returns None. Do not use it that way but just for output. Print is a function in Python 3. You are using raw_input which is deprecated in v3.x. Just input works the same way as raw_input in Python 3.

[buran]

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def get_hostname():     response = raw_input("Please enter your name: ")     body = '[{{"hostname": "{}"}}]'.format(response)     return body   print get_hostname()

I expect you want something like this, but not sure about quotes, etc.
Also if you want to create a json, better use json module

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import json def get_hostname():     response = raw_input("Please enter your name: ")     body = [{'hostname':response}]     return json.dumps(body)   print get_hostname()

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Also, if you don't have really good reason for using python2 (like maintaining old code base) you should be using python3 (latest is python 3.6.5)