I have a need to add entries to a dictionary with the following keys: name element type I want each entry to append to a JSON file, where I will access them for another piece of the project. What I have below technically works, but there are couple things(at least) wrong with this. First, it doesn't prevent duplicates being entered. For example I can have 'xyz', '4444' and 'test2' appear as JSON entries multiple times. Is there a way to correct this? Is there a cleaner way to write the actual data entry piece so when I am entering these values into the dictionary it's not directly there in the parentheses? Finally, is there a better place to put the JSON piece? Should it be inside the function? Just trying to clean this up a bit. Thanks import json element_dict = {} def add_entry(name, element, type): element_dict["name"] = name element_dict["element"] = element element_dict["type"] = type return element_dict #add entry entry = add_entry('xyz', '4444', 'test2') #export to JSON with open('elements.json', 'a', encoding="utf-8") as file: x = json.dumps(element_dict, indent=4) file.write(x + '\n') Continue reading...
