Example Program: Username Creation


Usernames are first initial and 7 chars of lastname (e.g. jzelle).

inf = open("names.dat", "r")
outf = open("logins.txt", "w")

for line in inf:
    first, last = line.split()
    uname = (first[0]+last[:7]).lower()
    outf.write(uname+'\n')

inf.close()
outf.close()

Note use of string methods (Python 2.0 and newer)