#!/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