[Tutor] Variables

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 01:26:19PM -0600, Palmer Gutke wrote:
>> I'm trying to write a program w/ python that runs once a day and every time
>> it does it adds 20 to a variable. How do I do this so it doesn't reset the
>> variable to the original value every time I run it?
>
> You have to read the variable from a file saved to disk, add 20, then
> write back to the file.
>
> Does that answer your question? Do you need help reading and writing
> files?
>
>
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> Steve
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Also, lookup cron.  It will start your program at a certain time you
select, every day

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