Hello,
I am a python newbie. I am reading this book (Python Programming for the
Absolute Beginner). I am on Chapter 7, Question 2.
"Improve the Trivia Challenge game so that it maintains a high-scores list
in a file. The program should record the player's name and score. Store the
high scores using a pickled object."
I have the following code so far:
def high_score():
"""Records a player's score"""
high_scores = []
#add a score // Do current stuff for adding a new score...
name = input("What is your name? ")
player_score = int(input("What is your score? "))
entry = (name, player_score)
high_scores.append(entry)
high_scores.sort(reverse=True)
high_scores = high_scores[:5] # keep only top five
# dump scores
f = open("pickles1.dat", "wb")
pickle.dump(high_scores, f)
f.close()
f = open("pickles1.dat", "rb")
high_scores = pickle.load(f)
print(high_scores)
f.close()
When I execute this program in the main() program I get only the existing
single name, player_score list combination stored in the pickles1.dat file.
Can someone walk me through how it can store all the values each time the
program is ran?
Thanks,
Zack H.
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