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Python

Yosef Fastow
Yosef Fastow
18,526 Points
Posted by Yosef Fastow
Yosef Fastow
18,526 Points

Extra credit on shopping game. I can't find out how to save without overriding the previous one.

I'm using the open() to open shopping_list.txt and than json.jump(adding, lists) and than closing but when I run it and type in show or done it only returns the last entry and it looks like json is replacing the previous text every time.

So how could I save on the file without deleting the previous one.

def add():
    lists = open('shopping_list.txt', 'w')
    adding = input("What do you want to add to the list?")
    json.dump(adding, lists)
    lists.closed

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points

It's not the json that's replacing your file contents, it's your open.

:point_right: mode "w" opens a file for writing only. It overwrites the file if the file exists

If you want to add to an existing file, you want to open it with mode "a".

Yosef Fastow
Yosef Fastow
18,526 Points
Yosef Fastow
Yosef Fastow
18,526 Points

That work's but I can't figure out how to turn the file int a list so we could alliterate aver each one individually. All I could get is all the items on one line like this: "Pizza""Melon""orange".

I tried append, split and list to make it into a list but then I get an AttributeError: '_io.TextIOWrapper' object has no attribute 'split'.

def show_list():
    num = 0
    print("")
    print("This is what you need to pick up from the store:")
    shopping_list = open('the_list.py', 'r')
    for shop in shopping_list:
        num += 1
        print(str(num) + ') ' + shop)
    print("")
    shopping_list.closed
Yosef Fastow
Yosef Fastow
18,526 Points
Yosef Fastow
Yosef Fastow
18,526 Points

Don't worry I figured it out. I added ,read() to it to an string and then played around to get rite of all the ""becouse before it returned "beef ""orange ""pizza ""lemon ""apple "

I started shopping_list with one " so the functions won't delete the first letter of the first item in the list.

def show_list():
    num = 0
    print("")
    print("This is what you need to pick up from the store:")
    shopping_list = open('shopping_list.txt', 'r')
    the_list = shopping_list.read()
    the_list = the_list.split()
    del the_list[-1]
    for shop in the_list:
        num += 1
        print(str(num) + ') ' + shop[2:])
    print("")
    shopping_list.closed