Why is it crashing? (newbie)
Charles Mantha
charles_mantha at hotmail.com
Sat Jul 6 23:36:24 EDT 2002
Yup, a newbie question again :/ .
I am trying to run a small toy program which I modified from a tutorial.
It's a questionnaire that uses lists which contains the questions and
answers. Every time I try to run this prog it freezes my Python Shell
interpreter (IDLE).
This is the code :
## This program runs a test of knowledge
true = 1
false = 0
def menu():
print "'1' Take the test."
print "'2' View the questions and answers."
print "'3' Quit."
print
# First get the test questions
def get_questions():
# notice how the data is stored as a list of lists
return [["What color is the daytime sky on a clear day?","blue"],\
["What is the answer to life, the universe and
everything?","42"],\
["What is a three letter word for mouse trap?","cat"],\
["What noise does a truly advanced machine make?","ping"]]
# This will test a single question
# it takes a single question in
# it returns true if the user typed the correct answer, otherwise false
def check_question(question_and_answer):
#extract the question and the answer from the list
question = question_and_answer[0]
answer = question_and_answer[1]
# give the question to the user
given_answer = raw_input(question)
# compare the user's answer to the testers answer
if answer == given_answer:
print "Correct"
return true
else:
print "Incorrect, correct was:",answer
return false
# This will run through all the questions
def run_test(questions):
if len(questions) == 0:
print "No questions were given."
# the return exits the function
return
index = 0
right = 0
while index < len(questions):
#Check the question
if check_question(questions[index]):
right = right + 1
#go to the next question
index = index + 1
#notice the order of the computation, first multiply, then divide
print "You got ",right*100/len(questions),"% right out
of",len(questions)
menu()
menu_choice = int(raw_input("Choose one of the options: ")),
while menu_choice != 3:
if menu_choice == 1:
run_test(get_questions())
Note : The "calling" part of the code is not finished for the options 2 and
3. But It should at least run the test when you type in 1, no ?
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