test.py
## This program runs a test of knowledge true = 1 false = 0 # First get the test questions # Later this will be modified to use file io. 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"]]
# 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) #now lets run the questions run_test(get_questions())
Sample Output:
What color is the daytime sky on a clear day?green Incorrect, correct was: blue What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?42 Correct What is a three letter word for mouse trap?cat Correct You got 66 % right out of 3