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Day 11 of learning python as a beginner. Topic: creating journal entry program using file I/O. I got a little sidleline from my original plan of editing my to-do list program and created an entirely new program this time for writing a daily journal. During the process I got inroduced to import function and to os and datetime. import is used to bring external code into the program so that I can use its function, classes and variable. os module allows python to interact with teh operating system (I used this to delete files). date time module as the name suggests work with the date and time. (I used date to record the journal entry and then time stamped it). I started with importing modules like datetime and os. Then I used striftime function to manuplate the presentation of date and time in DD/MM/YY and HH/MM/SS format. Then I used my usual if, elif and else ladder combined with the file I/O functions like "w" for write and "a" for appending the journal (for editing purpose) and then I used os module for deleting the files on user's command. As I got to know that python can delete my other files also and therefore I added a confirmation where the user has to enter file name twice to confirm deletion. I used open(f"{now.date()}.txt", "w") because I want to create and classify the file according to the date. "w" here stands for write. I also wrapped the whole thing is a while loop so that it can keep on repeating unless the user himself voluntarily stops it by typing done or nothing. I would really appreciate any suggestions to improve my code and here's my code a;ong with its result. I would have also shared the video of its functioning but I don't think the video format is currently supposted with images (do tell me if I am wrong).