🔒 unknown problem with code

[stuck summit]

Program in question is a music school management system (uni assignment)
When run, it's supposed to take me back to the "main menu" so I can select another option but it just stops like in pic related

Code:
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ON5A

[steel musk]

@stuck summit

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[wind shoal]

this save_data() call here is actually going to cause massive issues

it will overwrite your data on program start

if you want "one final save on exit", it has to come after main()

I'd also recommend not relying so heavily on try/except. It's masking a lot of errors you might be encountering which makes it so much harder to track down issues

[stuck summit]

alternatives?

(im relatively new to programming so most of what i have learned so far would be entry-level)

[wind shoal]

what errors are you encountering that you felt like you had to use try/except to solve?

most errors you encounter will have real solutions instead of dusting them under the rug

[stuck summit]

i wouldn't say i was encountering any errors prior

try/except was just a means to finish the code (context: my assignment has fragments of unfinished code that we need to put together and complete)

[wind shoal]

then what are the try/excepts for?

[robust zenith]

@stuck summit try to keep the try block as specific as possible (in most cases)
here only one line needs to be inside it instead of this:

        if choice == '1': # check in student.
        # Gets student_id and course_id from user, then calls check_in().
            try:
                student_id = int(input("Enter Student ID: "))
                course_id = input("Enter Course ID: ").strip()
                check_in(student_id, course_id)
                made_change = True
            except ValueError:
                print("Invalid Student ID.")

[stuck summit]

means to an end? 😭

you might have to scale back your questions a bit im sorry

[wind shoal]

questions help give us insight into your thought process and skill level

[stuck summit]

to be frank, a lot of this was genai because crunched for time

[wind shoal]

🥴

[stuck summit]

yeah

[wind shoal]

I wouldn't touch ai as someone learning to code

stay far away

[stuck summit]

again, means to an end 😔

my current course is very crunchy and thus there's a lot of stuff/assignments to complete within a week's time (no weekends at all)

[wind shoal]

and rndpkt is exactly right above. It's ok to use try/except to handle the int input, but that should be the only thing within the try/except

[wind shoal]

how did students get by before genai? 🤔

[stuck summit]

they asked people

[robust zenith]

@stuck summit also be aware of that the last line here will run no matter if an exception happend or not

        elif choice == '2': # print student card
            # Gets student_id, then prints calls print_student_card()
            try:
                student_id = int(input("Enter Student ID: "))
                print_student_card(student_id)
            except ValueError:
                print("Invalid Student ID.")
            made_change = True
```and why would `made_change` ever need to be set when only printing a student card? (as i'm guessing that shouldn't modify any data you should not need to save any data an additional time after this)

[robust zenith]

if you let AI do the work for you, you will be in trouble when you really need to know this stuff yourself, like during a test (and that is if you are not found out before that)

[stuck summit]

that much i understand, yeah

just trying to make sure i get this current ordeal done with and resort less to genai

[wind shoal]

it's going to code you into a corner though with messy code that you don't understand

[robust zenith]

the first problem i pointed out is prevalent though out the code almost at every point where there is a try/except

@stuck summit this part does nothing other then print out the text, but it doesn't exit the loop

        elif choice.lower() == 'q':
            print("Saving final changes and exiting.")

[stuck summit]

sorry, was working through fixing the code with someone else

[stuck summit]

as for this the fragment has made_change for every if statement in the block

[steel musk]

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