🔒 Quite new to python, tried to follow a tutorial but ended up hitting a roadblock.

[lunar tulip]

I was following a tutorial on creating a password manager (link: https://youtu.be/DLn3jOsNRVE?si=kcyynhvXcKFQhsSD&t=4708). In the video, after he quitted the program, a txt file was created. But when I tried to do as he did, there was no txt file created. I already checked multiple times and I don't really notice any difference between our code so help would be much appreciated. I've spent nearly an hour trying to figure this thing alone 😭

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[lunar tulip]

master_pwd = input("What is the master password? ")

def view():
    pass

def add():
    name = input("Account Name: ")
    pwd = input("Password: ")

    with open('passwords.txt', 'w') as f:
        f.write(name + "|" + pwd + "\n")

while True:
    mode = input(
        "Would you like to add a new password or view existing ones (view, add), press q to quit:").lower()
    if mode == "q":
        break

    if mode == "view":
        view()
    elif mode == "add":
        add()
    else:
        print("Invalid mode.")
        continue

[onyx delta]

my first thought is that youre assuming your code is running in some place, but its actually running in a different place. do you get any error messages when running your code? if not, your file is most likely being created and you just havent realised where

[lunar tulip]

doesnt seem to be any error mesasges

[onyx delta]

ok, then your file is probably created. can you import os and print out os.getcwd() somewhere?

[lunar tulip]

sorry i dont understand

[onyx delta]

import os
print(os.getcwd())

add these lines somewhere near the top of your script

[lunar tulip]

whats import os

oh

ok

[onyx delta]

os is just a builtin library in this case.

[lunar tulip]

do i just run it after adding it to the top of my code?

[onyx delta]

(getcwd tells you the current working directory of your python script)

yeah, and check output

it should display a full path to the folder where the code is running from. (aka its "working directory")

[lunar tulip]

im not noticing anything different

i put it on top like this right?

[onyx delta]

it displayed that extra line in the output. see the folder C users patrick evan?

can you open that folder, see if your password file is there

[lunar tulip]

ohhhhhhhhh

thank you so much bro

ive been malding over this so much

lol

[onyx delta]

np. so couple of things to keep in mind: if you want the file to be created in a specific folder, use full paths, not just a file name

second: remember, all code runs from some "working" directory. things will default to being created there if you dont give full paths

in this case, the open command accepts full paths. so with open(r"C:/full/path/to/passwords.txt"....

note the little "r" i wrote at the start before the string. that allows you to use backslashes without issues as well, but ive gotten used to writing forward slashes now

python can handle both iirc

[lunar tulip]

thanks for the help and tips bro

very helpful

🙏

[onyx delta]

glad to help!

[wide smelt]

I believe they're passed as-is to windows, it's windows that's accepting both

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