# This program runs a test of knowledge
#First get the questions
#Later this will be modified to use file io
def get_questions():
#Notice how the data is stored in a list of lists
return [["What color is the daytime sky on a clear day? ", "blue"],
["What i the answer to life, the universe, and everything? ", "42"],
["What is a three letter word for mouse trap? ", "cat"]]
#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
#This function takes a list with two elements, a question and an answer
question = question_and_answer[0]
answer = question_and_answer[1]
#give the question to the user
given_answer = 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 fuction
return
index = 0
right = 0
while index < len(questions):
#Check the question
#Note that this is extracting a question and answer list from the lists of lists
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))
#now let's get the questions from the get_questions function, and send the returned list
#of lists as an argument to the run_test function
run_test(get_questions())
Hello again, I'm sorry for asking so many stupid questions but in this program I keep getting a syntax error right at the end (run_test(get_questions())). Does anyone know why this is?
Thanks.
