#!/usr/bin/env python3 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Testing out reading and writing json to a file """ import os.path import json # Create a file object filename = "json.txt" filenameMy = "json-mine.txt" # Check if my own file exists, else use the default one if os.path.isfile(filenameMy): filename = filenameMy jsonfile = open(filename, "r") # Read from file and decode as json jsonobject = json.load(jsonfile) # Print out the content from the dict for color in jsonobject["colorsArray"]: print(color["colorName"], color["hexValue"]) # Ask if color is to be added confirm = input("Do you want to add a color (y/n)? ") if confirm.lower() == "y": # Get new color colorName = input("Enter color name: ") hexValue = input("Enter hex value (with #): ") # append the color as a dict to the colorsarray jsonobject["colorsArray"].append({ "colorName": colorName, "hexValue": hexValue }) # Open the file for writing ("w" will replace the file contents) jsonfile = open(filenameMy, "w") # Encode json with pretty output (indent) json.dump(jsonobject, jsonfile, indent=4)