Counter that stores and retrives to file

# stores index of list or iterable to file, retrives count

def store_counter(counter):
    # Store the counter value to a file
    with open('counter.txt', 'w') as file:
        file.write(json.dumps(counter))


def retrieve_counter():
    # Retrieve the counter value from the file
    with open('counter.txt', 'r') as file:
        counter = json.load(file)
    return counter


def main():
    try:
        counter = retrieve_counter()
    except FileNotFoundError:
        counter = 0

    for i in player_links[counter:]:
        # do somthing

        counter += 1
        store_counter(counter)