I have been playing with Gopherspace (yes, that is still a thing) and Flask-Gopher. I needed a simple visitor counter for Python 3.7 so I can see how many times a page loaded.
Here is the solution I came up with. It creates a text file called counter.dat and stores a number in it. Each time the code runs, the number in the file increments.
I used pathlib to solve file path differences between Unix and Windows.
I hope it helps you!
from pathlib import Path
#Change path to the Linux or Windows folder where your counter .dat file will live.
data_folder = Path('c:/Users/change_this/Documents/')
counter = data_folder / 'counter.dat'
try:
with open(counter, mode='r') as f:
count = int(f.read())+1
with open(counter, mode='w') as f:
f.write(str(count))
f.close()
except:
print('first run exception fired')
#create the counter.dat file on first run
count = 1
with open(counter, mode='w') as f:
f.write(str(count))
f.close()
print('You are visitor number ' + str(count))
