kristofer / TastyHint3.md

_I'm struggling to see where we take the user input for the task name._ the `command` variable will have `exit` or whatever, right? and the `new <task>` will actually look like `new Buy Milk` so take the string and split it into a list of strings, breaking each string on the <space> character. ```python txt = "welcome to the jungle" x = txt.split() print(x) # ['welcome', 'to', 'the', 'jungle'] ``` BUT Ulas says ```python txt = "new Buy Milk" t = txt.split() print(t) command = t[0] rest = t[1:] rest = " ".join(rest) print(command, ' - ', rest) ``` and after hacking a bit in the python interpreter, you may end up with ```python line = input(prompt) #print(line) while not line: line = input(prompt) words = line.split() #print(words) command = words[0] #print(command) rest = words[1:] rest = " ".join(rest) #print(rest) ``` and maybe the right thing to do is to change the `command = input("Tasty> ")` to something like `command, rest = tasty.prompt_user("Tasty> ")` then all the "words" after the "new" will be what you pull together to name the task? so `prompt-user(self, prompt)` becomes a method which asks for the user's input (using input(prompt)) ```python def prompt_user(self, prompt): inp = input(prompt) # lookup how to split words into words[] ``` ## saving? a Hint ```python with open("saved_data.json", "w") as fp: json.dump(self.tasks,fp) ``` ## loading? a Hint ```python with open(filename) as json_file: self.tasks = json.load(json_file) ``` And you should embed this stuff into a method. When you get to the point where you are puzzling over how to save/load multiple dicts (say, _tasks_, _trash_, and _important_), you might consider putting all this in another dictionary and just saving that. You still have to _load_ the one dict and then split it into three for use by the methods. This should be done in _load tasks_ method. The data structure might be created by ```python dict_to_save = { "tasks": self.tasks, "trash": self.trash, "impt": self.important } ``` You can now _json.dump_ the `dict_to_save` to a file. Loading it will be the opposite, you end up with one `loaded_dicts` which have to be split like: `self.tasks = loaded_dicts['tasks']` Easy Peasy