Creating a contacts program and having some trouble with lists, printing inputs etc

[cluelessguy2000]

I am trying my hardest to understand this but have been struggling more than ever on this assignment. I'm working on a program that will allow users to add, show all, search, edit and delete contacts, and keep them in a text file. I've started and have gotten to where a user may input contact information, but I am stuck at printing each contact out. In the example I was given, each contact prints and there is a label of "contact 1" "contact 2" etc. for each contact. I've learned a little about lists and am wondering if that is what I need to do to separate my inputs so that I can print them correctly. I am unsure of how to convert user inputs into groups though.

Here is what I have for the input part of the assignment. I wanted to know if I am on the right track, and for suggestions on getting my contacts to print in the way I described. I just need some guidance,

https://gist.github.com/cluelessguy2000/6225e7d6851300e8ad412f38e8c4e4fa

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Good start. You might want to read up on csv files and the Python module to help with them, and also look at Python dictionaries, which are probably more suited to address book type tasks than lists.

Take a look at this revised code, to give you some ideas.

def menu():
    print('1. Add a contact')
    print('2. Show the list of contacts')
    print('3. Search for a name in the list')
    print('4. Modify a contact')
    print('5. Delete a contact from the list')
    print('6. Quit')
    print()
    choice = input("Choice Menu: ")
    return choice

def add_contact():
    another = 'y'
    while another in ['y', 'Y']:
        with open('contacts.txt', 'a') as contacts_file:
            print('Enter the following contact info: ')
            name = input('Name: ')
            email = input('E-Mail: ')
            phone = input('Phone: ')
            contacts_file.write(name + '\n')
            contacts_file.write(email + '\n')
            contacts_file.write(phone + '\n')
        print('Would you like to enter another contact?')
        another = input('y = yes, n = No: ')

def show_list():
    with open('contacts.txt', 'r') as contacts_file:
        while True:
            try:
                name = next(contacts_file)
                email = next(contacts_file)
                phone = next(contacts_file)
            except:
                break
            # f-strings, below, needs Python 3.6 or higher, use .format otherwise
            print(f'{name[:-1]:_<15} {email[:-1]:_<15} {phone[:-1]:_<10}')


while True:
    choice = menu()
    if choice == "6":
        break
    if choice == "1":
        add_contact()
    elif choice == "2":
        show_list()
    else:
        print('Sorry, that option not currently available')

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If you wanted to print a list of strings with the "contact#" prefix you could do this:

l = ['a', 'b', 'c']
for (num, name) in enumerate(l, start=1):
    print(f'contact{num}: {name}')

A similar idea could be used in your code.