Reputation: 97
Trying to have a game where each question has a unique value associated to it. The player's score is then the total number of points of the questions she or he answers correctly. Been fiddling with it but I keep running into these errors :
code:
# Trivia Challenge
# Trivia game that reads a plain text file
import sys
def open_file(file_name, mode):
"""Open a file."""
try:
the_file = open(file_name, mode)
except IOError as e:
print("Unable to open the file", file_name, "Ending program.\n", e)
input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
sys.exit()
else:
return the_file
def next_line(the_file):
"""Return next line from the trivia file, formatted."""
line = the_file.readline()
line = line.replace("/", "\n")
return line
def next_block(the_file):
"""Return the next block of data from the trivia file."""
category = next_line(the_file)
point_value = 0
question = next_line(the_file)
answers = []
answers.append(next_line(the_file))
if( answers[0]=="True\n"):
answers.append(next_line(the_file))
else:
for i in range(4):
answers.append(next_line(the_file))
correct = next_line(the_file)
if correct:
correct = correct[0]
point_value = (int)(next_line(the_file).strip())
explanation = next_line(the_file)
return category, question, answers, correct, explanation, point_value
def welcome(title):
"""Welcome the player and get his/her name."""
print("\t\tWelcome to Trivia Challenge!\n")
print("\t\t", title, "\n")
def main():
trivia_file = open_file("trivia.txt", "r")
title = next_line(trivia_file)
welcome(title)
score = 0
# get first block
category, question, answers, correct, explanation, point_value = next_block(trivia_file)
while category:
# ask a question
print(category)
print(question)
i=0
for a in answers:
print ("\t", i + 1, "-", a)
i = i + 1 # get answer
answer = input("What's your answer?: ")
# check answer
if answer == correct:
print("\nRight!", end=" ")
score += 1
else:
print("\nWrong.", end=" ")
print(explanation)
print("Score:", score, "\n\n")
# get next block
category, question, answers, correct, explanation, score, point_value = next_block(trivia_file)
trivia_file.close()
print("That was the last question!")
print("You're final score is", score)
main()
input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
not sure why it's having these errors/why its not running - suggestions? ty!
this is connected to a seperate .txt file named "trivia.txt" with all the questions and points.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 321
Reputation: 4855
Most likely the error is occurring because your text file contains unicode characters. You can add the encoding
parameter to the open
call to tell python that it isn't in the default ascii
encoding.
the_file = open(file_name, mode, encoding='utf-8')
If this doesn't work, it may be because the file is using a different encoding such as 'iso-8859-15'.
The Python documentation Unicode-HOWTO has more details about dealing with Reading and Writing Unicode Data.
Upvotes: 2