Nathan Pinno wrote:
I already told you that the data is being saved to the file. And is
being reloaded by ac = pickle.load(store). But the reloaded data is not
being assigned to accountlist, since parameters to functions are treated
as local variables. Assigning to a parameter in a function does NOT
change the value of the parameter in the call.
You can demonstrate this as follows:
>>> x = 2
>>> def f(y):
... y = 3
>>> print x
2
To fix your program, define load_file as:
def load_file():
import os
import pickle
filename = 'accounts.txt'
if os.path.exists(filename):
store = open(filename, 'r')
ac = pickle.load(store)
store.close()
else:
ac = {}
return ac
And change load_file(accountlist) to:
accountlist = load_file()
[snip]
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