Re: [pygame] Ideas about storing questions/answers for a boardGame.

[Ethan Glasser-Camp <glasse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

marta sanz wrote:
> This game is aimed to be used by my sister's school teacher in her class 
> of 10 years old kids. I said this because, despite the fact that I will 
> give this game with some questions so they can play from the moment I 
> give it to them, I would like the teacher to make her own question bank 
> once the kids have learned the questions I give at the beginning, but 
> have no idea of how can i do a simple bank and how can I access it from 
> the pygame code.

Hi,

Someone else suggested XML, but personally that seems too heavyweight 
for a teacher (with possibly no computing experience) to edit. Here is 
what I would do:

1) create a directory called "questions"
2) each file in "questions" is a text file which has:

Question
--
Answer

Here's an example:

Who invented the Python programming language?
--
Guido van Rossum


You can list the files in a directory using the listdir function from 
the os module. To read this file and split it, I would do something like 
this:

f = file("question.txt")
contents = f.read()
question, answer = contents.split('--')

(If you try this in an interpreter, you'll see that you get question = 
'Who invented the Python programming language?\n', answer = '\nGuido van 
Rossum\n'. You might call strip() on these strings.)

Hope this helps!

Ethan