Management System in Python - #4 - Finding Records & Resetting Files

Introduction: In this tutorial we will continue making our local user management system in Python. In part three we made the remove record function which paired with a lot of other new functions. Important: Although I keep interchanging the words records and users, this system can be used to keep any records of information, but I am using this example as a user management system. Now: This tutorial we are going to make a search/find option, and a clean file option. Search/Find Options: Since in the previous we made a function named getMatchedRecords to return the records matching a certain string or piece of information entered by the user, we can use this to efficiently work as a search/find function as well. First add the choice... Update the instructions... Now for the findUser function. We take information from the user through a while loop (while they haven't entered the word 'exit' (without single quotes)) then we print each record returns from the getMatchedRecords function while parsing the information line... Clearing Files: Next we have the clearing/resetting the file option. First add the option to the main menu system... Update the instructions... As you can see the new option/choice runs a function named resetFile. This function simply creates a new writing file stream to open the file path, writes a blank string, and closes/saves the stream. Simple.