Track Your Spending (or Habits)
Understand how to log structured input to a file.
Let’s build a real-life Python project: a tracker!
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You can use it to log spending, habits, workouts—anything you want to keep a record of.
Step 1: Simple spending logger
while True:
item = input("Enter an item (or 'done' to finish): ")
if item == "done":
break
amount = input("How much did you spend on it? ")
with open("expenses.txt", "a") as file:
file.write(item + ": $" + amount + "\n") # Concatenate the strings before writing
print("All expenses saved!")We’re asking the user for what they spent on and how much, and saving it to a file
Note: The
item,": $",amount, and"\n"...