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JoraSN
JoraSN

Reputation: 347

How to know what item is chosen from array using random library?

I am trying to make a bot that asks a person s basic true/false questions. I have two .txt files (one with questions and one with answers) which I open then read and remove the new line character '\n' from. This is my code for reading the questions file:

import random

engine = pyttsx3.init()

with open('read_ques.txt', 'r') as file:
    data_ques = file.read().replace('\n', '')
    data1 = data_ques.split('? ')

random_ques = random.choice(data1)

print(random_ques)

The problem is that I don't know what question random.choice() will choose from the questions .txt file, so I can't tell if the person was correct about if the answer was true or false.

Here are a few lines from each of my files.

Questions file:

Chameleons have extremely long tongues sometimes as long as their bodies, True or False?
An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain, True or False?
A sneeze is faster than the blink of an eye, True or False?.
Pigs can look up into the sky, True or False?

Answers file:

Answer: True.
Answer: True.
Answer: True.
Answers: False (They cannot).

line 1 question(in questions file) = line 1 answer(in answers file)

line 2 question(in questions file) = line 2 answer(in answers file) etc.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 176

Answers (1)

Jeppe
Jeppe

Reputation: 2266

Since line numbers correlate questions and answers in the two files, I would generate a random line-number and use that to index a random question and its corresponding answer.

import random

with open('questions.txt', 'r') as file:
    questions = file.read().split('\n')

with open('answers.txt', 'r') as file:
    answers = file.read().split('\n')


random_idx = random.randint(0, len(questions) - 1)

question = questions[random_idx]
answer = answers[random_idx]

Upvotes: 1

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