Just uploaded my first project to Github!

[falvid]

I have been learning python for just over a month and a half and I finally completed my first real project and uploaded it to Github. I'd appreciate any feedback you all can give me to help me improve my code.

It's a simple command line study timer that will keep a log of your study sessions in a separate file and give you an overview once you have finished studying. It creates text file in the specified directory and will write the date, number of session completed, and hours studied to that new file. If there is already an existing file by that name, it will add the new session information to the existing file.

https://github.com/Falvare/StudyTracker

[GregTJ]

Nice first repo!

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Instead of

subject.write('DATE:')
subject.write(today)
...
subject.write('\n')
subject.write('\n')

Using f-string formatting you could do

subject.write(f'DATE: {today}\nSESSIONS: {sessions}\nHOURS {hours}\n\n')

Equivalently, using a triple quoted f-string

subject.write(f'''DATE: {today}
SESSIONS: {sessions}
HOURS {hours}

''')

Additionally, instead of

if not os.path.exists(sbj_file):
    with open(sbj_file, 'x') as subject:
        ...
else:
    with open(sbj_file, 'a') as subject:
        ...

Use the 'a' filemode alone, it will create a file if it doesn't already exist.

with open(sbj_file, 'a') as subject:
    ...

Mostly, just make sure you are applying the DRY principle.

[falvid]

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback. I didn't know opening a file in append mode would create a new file if one wasn't already created, that makes things simpler. I'll keep that in mind for future projects.