Better way of storing files so they are mutable

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I want to run a discord bot, I have it working with json but it has caused many issues. Got any recommendations for a file type of it?

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code for my python bot // Not a discord bot typo sorry import pytchat import json import time import os

Constants

TOPICS_FILE = 'topics.json' BLACKLIST_FILE = r"blacklist.json" SUBMISSION_LIMIT = 1 SUBMISSION_INTERVAL = 10 # Cooldown for suggesting topics (KEEP LOW) TOPIC_EXPIRY = 1200 # How long it takes for a topic to expire in seconds BYPASS_USERS = ['AI_SouthPark.', 'SPCookie'] # List of users who can bypass the time limit

Global variables

user_submissions = {} topic_timestamps = {}

Function to process chat messages

def process_chat_messages(chat): topics = []

# Remove expired topics
current_time = time.time()
expired_topics = []
for topic, timestamp in topic_timestamps.items():
    if current_time - timestamp > TOPIC_EXPIRY:
        expired_topics.append(topic)
for topic in expired_topics:
    del topic_timestamps[topic]

# Load the blacklist from the blacklist.json file
blacklist = []
if os.path.exists(BLACKLIST_FILE):
    with open(BLACKLIST_FILE, 'r') as file:
        blacklist = json.load(file)

for c in chat.get().sync_items():
    if c.message.startswith('!topic'):
        user_id = c.author.channelId

        # Check if the user can bypass the time limit
        if user_id not in BYPASS_USERS:
            # Check if the user has reached the submission limit
            if user_id in user_submissions and current_time - user_submissions[user_id] < SUBMISSION_INTERVAL:
                continue

        # Extract the topic from the message
        topic = c.message[7:].strip()

        # Check if the topic is in the blacklist
        if topic in blacklist:
            continue

        # Add the topic to the list if it is not empty
        if topic:
            topics.append(topic)
            topic_timestamps[topic] = current_time

        # Update the submission timestamp for the user
        user_submissions[user_id] = current_time

# Read existing topics from the topics.json file
try:
    with open(TOPICS_FILE, 'r') as file:
        existing_topics = json.load(file)
except FileNotFoundError:
    existing_topics = []

# Remove expired topics from existing topics
existing_topics = [topic for topic in existing_topics if topic not in expired_topics]

# Remove blacklisted topics from existing topics
existing_topics = [topic for topic in existing_topics if topic not in blacklist]

# Combine existing topics and new topics
combined_topics = existing_topics + topics

# Convert topics list to JSON string
json_topics = json.dumps(combined_topics)

# Write topics to topics.json file
with open(TOPICS_FILE, 'w') as file:
    file.write(json_topics)

# Print the JSON string
print(json_topics)

Set up pytchat

chat = pytchat.create(video_id='zDed8CWlues')

Continuously process chat messages

while chat.is_alive(): process_chat_messages(chat) time.sleep(1) # Add a delay to avoid excessive API requests

Cleanup

chat.terminate()

// Not a discord bot typo sorry

[Interesting-exe]

cant think of a file format other than json.