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persistence

At the bottom of your program, two calls to the print() BIF
display your processed data on screen. Let’s amend this code to
save the data to two disk files instead.
Call your disk files man_data.txt (for what the man said) and
other_data.txt (for what the other man said). Be sure to
both open and close your data files, as well as protect your code
man = [] against an IOError using try/except.
other = []

try:
data = open('sketch.txt')
for each_line in data:
try:
(role, line_spoken) = each_line.split(':', 1)
line_spoken = line_spoken.strip()
if role == 'Man':
man.append(line_spoken)
elif role == 'Other Man':
other.append(line_spoken)
except ValueError:
pass
data.close()
except IOError:
print('The datafile is missing!')
Go on, try. Open your two
data files here.

print(man, ) Specify the files to
print(other, ) write to when you invoke
Be sure to “print()”.
close your
files.

Handle any
exceptions here.

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