🔒 help creating a leaderboard in game

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[left anvil]

oh dear

import random
import re

def mode_select():
    while True:
        mode = input("pick a mode: easy, normal, hard").strip().lower()
        if mode == "easy":
            print(f"you have selected {mode}, each time you get a number correct, it will tell you which position is right\n")
            break
        elif mode == "normal":
            print(f"you have selected {mode}, when you get a nuumber in the correct position, it will tell you how many numbers are in the right position\n")
            break
        elif mode == "hard":
            print (f"you have selected {mode}, the code is now 5 numbers long instead of the usual 4.\n")
            break
        else:
            print (f"please select a mode from: easy, normal or hard")
    return mode

def digits(mode):
    if mode == "easy":
        digitsList = [random.randint(0,9) for _ in range(4)]
    elif mode == "normal":
        digitsList = [random.randint(0,9) for _ in range(4)]
    elif mode == "hard":
        digitsList = [random.randint(0,9) for _ in range (5)]
    return digitsList

def guessing(mode, digitsList):
    counter = 1
    guessNumberList = []
    
    if mode == "easy":
        while True:
            print (f"\nattempt {counter}")
            guessNumber = input("\ngang, give me a four digit number")
            if not re.fullmatch(r'\d{4}', guessNumber):
                print ("enter a four digit number")
                continue
                
            guessNumberList = [int(x) for x in guessNumber]
                
            correct_digit_placement = [num + 1 for num in range(len(digitsList)) if digitsList[num] == guessNumberList[num]]
            correct_digits = sum(1 for g, d in zip(guessNumberList, digitsList) if g == d)
            print (f"you got numbers right at positions {correct_digit_placement}")
            print (f"you guessed {correct_digits} places right")
            counter += 1
            
            if guessNumberList == digitsList:
                print ("well done bro ggs")
                return
            
            guessNumberList.clear()
            
    elif mode == "normal":
        while True:
            print (f"\nattempt {counter}")
            guessNumber = input("\ngang, give me a four digit number")
            
            if not re.fullmatch (r'\d{4}', guessNumber):
                print ("enter a four digit number")
                continue
            
            guessNumberList = [int(x) for x in guessNumber]
            
            correct_digits = sum(1 for g, d in zip(guessNumberList, digitsList) if g == d)
            print (f"you guessed {correct_digits} places right")
            counter += 1
    
            if guessNumberList == digitsList:
                print ("well done bro ggs")
                return
            
            guessNumberList.clear()
            
    elif mode == "hard":
        while True:
            print (f"\nattempt {counter}")
            guessNumber = input("\ngang, enter a five digit number")
            
            if not re.fullmatch (r'\d{5}', guessNumber):
                print ("enter a five digit number")
                continue
            
            guessNumberList = [int(x) for x in guessNumber]
            
            correct_digits = sum(1 for g, d in zip(guessNumberList, digitsList) if g == d)
            print (f"you guessed {correct_digits} places right")
            counter += 1
            
            if guessNumberList == digitsList:
                print ("well done bro ggs")
                return
            
            guessNumberList.clear()
    
    return counter
        
        
def main():    
    mode = mode_select()
    digitsList = digits(mode)
    guessing(mode, digitsList)
    
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

#create a leaderboard for it

ive been trying to create a leaderboard in game, that is displayed after each run of the game, which is just {name:score}, but im not sure how to open a file and create a dictionary within it and then also sort it and print it at the end of the code.

it would be appreciated if you also see any easier ways i could do my code as i started learning a week ish ago and just explain what you did if possible!

[spark zephyr]

https://docs.python.org/3/library/shelve.html

!e

import shelve
# your game
# store data
with shelve.open("scores") as scores:
    scores["player1"] = 5
    scores["player2"] = 12
    
# load data
with shelve.open("scores") as scores:
    print(scores["player1"])
    print(scores["player2"])

[urban bramble]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | 5
002 | 12

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[spark zephyr]

and here how you can sort you data:

!e

import shelve
import random
# your game
# store data
with shelve.open("scores") as scores:
    for i, j in zip(range(20), (random.randint(0, 100) for _ in range(20))):
        scores[f"player{i}"] = j
    
# load data

with shelve.open("scores") as scores:
    leaderboard = sorted(scores.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1])
    for player, score in leaderboard:
        print(f"{player}: {score}")

[urban bramble]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | player19: 96
002 | player6: 83
003 | player4: 76
004 | player13: 76
005 | player9: 74
006 | player10: 71
007 | player18: 68
008 | player5: 66
009 | player16: 57
010 | player0: 51
... (truncated - too many lines)

Full output: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/MXPTZOAL4JCGJW3RIUQOEFCFAU
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[spark zephyr]

@left anvil

[left anvil]

so should i have scores, be attempts and for player, make an input for a name?

[spark zephyr]

if that's what you want

[left anvil]

is it possible so it saves to an existing file, so the leaderboard saves even when the program is clsoed?

[spark zephyr]

that is what shelve does

[left anvil]

oh

i think i mightve done something wrong then

[spark zephyr]

look at the documentation link i shared above

[left anvil]

it only works once for when you run the program

okok

[urban bramble]

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