switched to creating a working copy of projects.json

import subprocess

import os

import sys

import shutil

import json

from collections import OrderedDict

projects_file = "projects.json"

projects_default_file = "projects-default.json"

if not os.path.isfile(projects_file):

  if os.path.isfile(projects_default_file):

    shutil.copy(projects_default_file,projects_file)

sys.exit()

with open('projects.json') as data_file:

    Projects = json.load(data_file, object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict)