class Counter( object ): #counter_file = open('./ID_File.txt', 'r+') def read( self ): counter_file = open('./ID_File.txt', 'r') counter = counter_file.read() counter = int( counter ) counter_file.close() return counter def increase( self, n ): counter_file = open('./ID_File.txt', 'r') counter = counter_file.read() counter = int( counter ) counter_file.close() counter += n counter_file = open( './ID_File.txt', 'w') counter_file.write( str( counter ) ) counter_file.close() def decrease( self, n ): counter_file = open('./ID_File.txt', 'w') counter = counter_file.read() counter = int( counter ) counter -= n counter_file.write( str( counter ) ) counter_file.close()