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I have a script that writes user input values from questions to a txt file. Another script needs to be able to open that file and read in those answers.
Ive been trying to write the values in a x=y format in txt file but when called in the other script it throws an error saying the variable is not defined. This leads me to believe I just dont have my temporary txt file formatted correctly for python to read the information. How would I want to store the multiple variables and values in the txt file for python to be able to read them in as a variable name?

Here is how the first script stores my values. (single line)

timeIn=18 January 2019 11:39:40 supportID=Andy branch=Bristow clientID=Cindy Lou reason=grinch stole christmas

Here is the error I get when trying to read in the values by variable name.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "script2.py", line 9, in <module>

    f.write('[Time In] '+ timeIn)

NameError: name 'timeIn' is not defined

My question is how would I want to format these in the txt file to be read in by another script?

edit 1: Im opening the txt file in the second script this way

t=open("testtmp.txt","r")

edit 2: I am not writing the values just as themselves (x) on individual lines. I am now trying to read those values in to be written to another file.

This kind of key value data would be easier to work with in a json file.

You can use the the library json to work with it.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html

Using a text file you are just working with a string, so you would need to parse data into usable format after reading it.

THIS IS HOW I SOLVED MY ISSUE (.txt format):

First, I wrote in the original values with a line break separating them.

t=open("nbsstmp.txt", "w")

t.write(timeIn+' n')

t.write(supportID+' n')

t.write(branch+' n')

t.write(clientID+' n')

t.write(problem+' n')

t.close()

Then, I was able to read them back in the following way.

t=open("nbsstmp.txt","r")

f=open("Support_Access_Log.txt","a")

timeIn=(t.readlines((1)))

a=(str(timeIn))

supportID=(t.readlines(2))

b=(str(supportID))

branch=(t.readlines(3))

c=(str(branch))

clientID=(t.readlines(4))

d=(str(clientID))

problem=(t.readlines(5))

e=(str(problem))



f.write('[Time In] ')

f.write(a.replace("['","").replace("']","").replace("\n",""))

f.write(' [Support ID] ')

f.write(b.replace("['","").replace("']","").replace("\n",""))

f.write(' [Branch] ')

f.write(c.replace("['","").replace("']","").replace("\n",""))

f.write(' [Support Client] ')

f.write(d.replace("['","").replace("']","").replace("\n",""))

f.write(' [Reason] ')

f.write(e.replace("['","").replace("']","").replace("\n",""))

f.close()

t.close()