Database Creation and Reading

[Tussocky_Coder]

Hi, so I don't know if this is a stupid question or an impossible question but I'd just like to know if you guys can help me. I've decided to start developing a read/write program that stores user info. I was wondering if you knew how to make a script that will ask for someone's name and then create a file with the same name as them? And yes there will be further questions on this subject so all information would be really helpful, thanks! (Oh, and I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong category, I wasn't really sure)

[Larz60+]

I was wondering if you knew how to make a script that will ask for someone's name and then create a file with the same name as them?

Answer is yes

[Tussocky_Coder]

Could you tell me how to do that plz?

[Larz60+]

This is basic python, any tutorial will have you there probably within the first hour.
see: http://interactivepython.org/courselib/s...index.html
and: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython...ython.html

Here's a simple example (untested) save as write_something.py:

def write_some_text(sometext, filename):
    with open(filename, 'w') as fp:
        fp.write(sometext)

write_some_text('Hey, what do you think about that', 'MyTextFile.txt')

you can run from command line with:

python write_something.py

To read back and print:
read_me.py:

def read_me(filename):
    with open(filename) as fp:
        read_text = fp.read()

print(read_me('MyTextFile.txt'))