create a text file

[per9000]

Ooops,

w must be 'w' - sorry for adding more confusion :-D

I would also like to add that this is a more realistic useage

appendix = '.txt' # or '.csv' or whatever

#  some code

c += 1
filetitle = 'result_' + zeropadding(c) + str(c)
myfile = open(filetitle+appendix,'w')

# etc

Hope that was a little better.
/P9K