#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
#a routing to assign variable names automatically to command line arguments based on a "help list" defined here as varnames[]
index=1
varnames=['Company Name', 'Address', 'Phone Number'] #spaces are to be replaced by underscores, also the user might need to quote input
argcount=len(varnames)
if len(sys.argv)-1 != argcount:
print "Incorrect argument count"
print sys.argv[0]," ",varnames[:]
sys.exit(2)
for arg in varnames: #create a new var with the name of each arg: Company_Name = sys.argv[1]
arg_name = "_".join(arg.split(' '))
# arg_name = sys.argv[index] #obviousley not what I want to do, but you get the point
print arg_name+" = "+sys.argv[index] #output showing what is supposed to happen internally
index=index+1 #there must be a way of getting the index of arg instead