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Re: User Input

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Date Thu, 30 May 2013 12:45:43 +0100
Subject Re: User Input
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On 30 May 2013 12:42, "Eternaltheft" <eternaltheft@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi, I'm having trouble oh how prompt the user to enter a file name and
how to set up conditions. For example, if there's no file name input by the
user, a default is returned

Are you using raw_input? It returns an empty string if the user enters
nothing, so you can just use an if.

filename = raw_input('file name: ')
if not filename:
    filename = 'your default'

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User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 04:33 -0700
  Re: User Input Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 12:45 +0100
  Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 04:48 -0700
    Re: User Input Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 22:06 +1000
    Re: User Input MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-05-30 13:08 +0100
    Re: User Input Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 13:10 +0100
  Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 05:19 -0700
    Re: User Input Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 13:27 +0100
    Re: User Input Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 22:28 +1000
  Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 05:37 -0700
    Re: User Input Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-30 08:58 -0400
    Re: User Input Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 22:59 +1000
  Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 06:10 -0700
    Re: User Input Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-30 09:37 -0400
      Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 07:03 -0700
        Re: User Input Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-30 15:30 +0100
          Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 07:49 -0700
      Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 07:47 -0700
        Re: User Input Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 16:09 +0100

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