Question

I have a python code and i want it to make a file where it exports what the person wants(for a order). I want to export to a file never created but i want it to be named (the costumer’s name).txt for example John Smith.txt if they said there name was john smith.

My working code requires you to write your filename after python form.py
for example python form.py test.txt would write what the user specified as their info
What i want is the file name to be their name and add the extension .txt
here is my code that works

from sys import argv 
file_name, script = argv
print "Hello I will now ask you for your information.\n"
print "What is your name (last first)?"
name = raw_input() 
print "Alright, what is your adderess? "
address = raw_input()
print "Phone Number"
number = raw_input()
print "Email" 
email = raw_input()
print "fax"
fax = raw_input()
print "Thank you now I will ask you for you vehicle information.\n"
print "Year"
year = raw_input()
print "Make"
make = raw_input()
print "Model"
model = raw_input()
print "Mileage"
mileage = raw_input()
print "vin number"
vin = raw_input()

print "Thank you processing information" 

target = open ("file_name", 'w')

target.write("Information for ")
target.write(name)
target.write("\n")
target.write("name: ")
target.write(name)
target.write("\n")
target.write("Address: ")
target.write(address)
target.write("\n")
target.write("Phone Number: ")
target.write(number)
target.write("\n")
target.write("Email: ")
target.write(email)
target.write("\n")
target.write("Fax: ")
target.write(fax)
target.write("\n")
target.write("\n")
target.write("Vehicle information")
target.write("\n")
target.write("Year: ")
target.write(year)
target.write("\n")
target.write("Make: ")
target.write(make)
target.write("\n")
target.write("Model: ")
target.write(model)
target.write("\n")
target.write("Mileage: ")
target.write(mileage)
target.write("\n")
target.write("Vin Number: ")
target.write(vin)
target.close()
print "Ok done saved info." 
print "\n"

Answer 1

If you’re just looking to create a simple file from a variable with a fixed extension:

myVar="Joe Smart"

x = open (myVar+".txt", "w")
x.write("hello")
x.close()

Creates Joe Smart.txt in the current directory. You’d want to do better error checking than I did.