🔒 Need help with file handling

[valid holly]

I am a begginer(learning for 20 days) and I am building a study tracker project, it should be able to add or remove subjects, view subjects, add or remove chapters to subjects, view chapters of a subject, add notes or remove notes to a subject,

Right now I have implemented the adding the removing and viewing of subjects, but I am stuck at the chapters part, how should I add chapters to a subject

My file structure
Study tracker python project------
subjects.txt
chapters.txt
notes.txt

My current code:
https://pastebin.com/keMWw226

[solemn snow]

@valid holly

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[wheat prairie]

I would recommend migrating everything to dictionaries

why this complicated approach?

Il tell u a really simple approach

you store data in text

[valid holly]

But how would I turn the contents I read from a file to dictionary, or do I put the dictionary in the fils beforehnd

[wheat prairie]

in form of json

kinda like this

[valid holly]

What's json

[wheat prairie]

{
"Math": {
"chapters": ["Linear Equation", "Trigonometry"],
"notes": []
}
}

[wheat prairie]

how about you learn about lists, dicts and different DSA things in python and then start this project??

dictionaries are like structured way to store ur data

[valid holly]

I know dictionaries but not JSON

[wheat prairie]

yeah json is just like a dictionary. its a file format actually

but u can store in text

in simple words

if u take a dict's value and store it in a file

it becomes json

get it?

[valid holly]

Ok

[wheat prairie]

Why dont u try that?

[valid holly]

Ok I'll try smth

[wheat prairie]

store everything in a single text file

in form of a value of dict

liike that

@valid holly i have a better suggestion

why dont u actually learn about json

its kinda easy once u learnt

[valid holly]

Ok I'll watch a tutorial

[wheat prairie]

because it will help a lot in future too

[rare obsidian]

I agree, the main thing imo is that using a dict to represent the structure of your data is the most important thing. It makes you think about the problem better, e.g. chapters are always in the context of some particular subject, so your program should probably be changed to reflect that. Json is just an easy way to store the dict.

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