config token json example with appdirs and Path

import json
import sys
from getpass import getpass
from pathlib import Path

from appdirs import user_config_dir
https://pypi.org/project/appdirs/

config_dir = Path(user_config_dir(), "programm")
token_file = config_dir / "token.conf"

print("token_file:", token_file)
print("token_file.parent:", token_file.parent)
print("config_dir:", config_dir)

config_dir.mkdir(exist_ok=True)


def get_creds():
    token = input("Token: ")
    username = input("Username: ")
    password = getpass()
    # maybe not required to hide password
    return {"token": token, "username": username, "password": password}


def load_token():
    if token_file.exists():
        with token_file.open() as fd:
            try:
                credentials = json.load(fd)
            except ValueError:
                # print(f"Invalid json data in token file: {token_file}", file=sys.stderr)
                raise SystemExit(f"Invalid json data in token file: {token_file}")
    else:
        credentials = get_creds()
        with token_file.open("w") as fd:
            json.dump(credentials, fd)
    return credentials


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(load_token())