Python Highscores w/ text file

Question

i am currently working on a text based game, and have run into a problem trying to make my last function, highscore. My problem is this, i would like to make the function save my top five scores and save it to a text file, along with the player's username, and then be able to print this into my text based game. I know this could be hard to do, but i would like it if the scores were saved in a text file, and not a pickle as i have seen suggested, as i would like to share the file with some friends. Any help is appreciated, Thanks, Tom.

edit: I am comfortable opening the file for writing. my code included the scores.sort command, but i wasn't sure how to put 5 scores into the file, and have the 6th score deleted. Thanks for the help, Tom

Answer 1

Welcome to Stack Overflow! What are you using to store your high scores in Python? A class, a dictionary?

To simply write string content to a file you can do the following:

scores = [('username1', 123), ('username2', 456)]
with open('scores.txt', 'w') as f:
    for username, score in scores:
        f.write('Username: {0}, Score: {1}
'.format(username, score))