import pickle

def store(filename, **data):
    with open(filename, 'wb') as ofh:
        pickle.dump(data, ofh)
        
def fetch(filename):
    with open(filename, 'rb') as ifh:
        return pickle.load(ifh)


def main():
    filename = 'foo.pkl'
    store(filename, amount=59)
    data = fetch(filename)
    print(data)
    amount = data['amount']
    amount += 10
    store(filename, amount=amount)
    data = fetch(filename)
    print(data)
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Output:
{'amount': 59}
{'amount': 69}

(Nov-18-2020, 08:16 PM)Gribouillis Wrote: Please post the code of the game to see if this applies to your game. The code that I showed stores a number in a file and retrieves that number from the file. Is it not what you want?