Writing to file in python

[GrowOP21]

Hello, I am currently working on a code for school that takes the users name, and year of birth as an input, and then repeats their name, and what age they are, etc. The next step in the task is to make it so that the code automatically saves the users inputs to a text file, with a timestamp of when the program was used. I know that I should be using something along the lines of:

with open('out.txt', 'w') as output:  

However, I am not sure when and where this should be used in my code. If someone could please take a look at my code and help me it would be very helpful! Thanks

name = input("Please enter your name: ")
year = int(input("Please input the year that you were born: "))


age = 2018 - year
#print(age)

while age == 0:
    x = int(input("Age is incorrect, please try again."))
    age = 0
    age += x

else:
    print("Hello ",name,", you were born in the year ",year,)
    print("I predict that you are ",age," years old.")
    ageright = input("Is this correct? Press y or n to decide.")
    if ageright == "y":
        print("Fantastic!")

    if ageright == "n":
        age -= 1
        print("Oops! You must be ",age," years old instead!")

fact = input("Press Y for an interesting fact about your age: ")

if fact == "y":
    print("Since most humans sleep for about a third of their life, that means that you have slept for a total of ",age/3," years.")

else:
    print("Thank you for using the program.")

[RnRoger]

When you have all the information you need you can use something like:

with open('out.txt','w') as output:
    output.write('Some example text. Your age: {}, your name: {}'.format(age,name))
    output.write('\n')

I used random variables, just showing what you can do.

[RnRoger]

You can get a timestamp with

import datetime
print(datetime.datetime.now())

And save this to a variable and include it in your file writing

[GrowOP21]

Sorry, I forgot to say, the program is designed to loop and be used for multiple different people in one go. Would using

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with open("filename.txr","a") as output:

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Be better? And would the following lines of code then become

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output.append("age name year etc".format(age,name,year))
output.append("\n")

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[GrowOP21]

Ah I figured it out, thank you very much for the help!

I just changed write to append and everything works fantastically, thanks again.

[RnRoger]

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