Can an Python writeline() be used in an IF statement?

I'm trying to make a simple password manager. This is my function for adding passwords: ]

def add():
    
    cont=input("You would like to add a password? (y/n)")
    if cont.capitalize() == "Y":
        passwords = open("Passwords.txt","a")
        username_ = input("What is the username?")
        password_ = input("What is the password?")
        L = [username_, " ", password_]
        if(passwords.writelines(L)):
            print("Written successfully!")
            print("Quiting to option select...\n")
            main()
        else:
            print("Hmm. That didn't seem to work.")
            main()
    else:
        print("Quiting to option select...\n")
        main()
    

I always receive "Hmm. That didn't seem to work." when I try to add new passwords. The intended functionality of this is so that if a password is written, then it will say written successfully. Written in this case means appended, hence the 'a' in the opening of the file.

I tried using sudo to run it, but that wasn't the issue. I tried changing the append, to just 'w'.

You could use try-except method.

try:
    passwords.writelines(L)
except Exception as x:
    print("Hmm. That didn't seem to work")
    print(f"Returned error: {x}")
else:
    print("Written successfully!")
    print("Quitting to option select...\n")

Edited by adding Python identifier, fixed original author's typo and removed the bare except: