Danny and C Smith,
Thank you very much for your answers. And sorry for late reply I was away.
I will start including encoding="utf8" right away.
Printing them with numbers is also great idea and decent compromise,
thanks....
>>
The print function puts a newline at the end. You can change this
default behavior by providing an "end" keyword to it. <<
I'm familiar with end from examples from the internet, but I was not
successful with how to implement it into my example... Or something else
get merged or I get an error...
I will keep try and if I don't succeed I will come back here :-)
Thanks for all your help!
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This might be useful for reading values from a text value into a dictionary:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17775273/how-to-read-and-store-values-from-a-text-file-into-a-dictionary-python
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org> wrote:
>> Program read TXT file (c:\\slo3.txt)
>> In this file there are two words per line separated by tab.
>> First word is foreign language and second word is proper
translation, like
>> this:
>>
>> pivo beer
>> kruh bread
>> rdeca red
>> krompir potatoe
>> hisa house
>> cesta road
>> auto car
>>
>> (not even trying to mess with special characters for now, lol)
>
> Do look at:
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
>
> because the fact that you're dealing with foreign language means you
> want to get it right.
>
>
> If it were me, I'd just say that the input is UTF-8 encoded text, and
> always open up the file in utf-8 mode.
>
> myfile = open("slo3.txt", "r", encoding="utf8")
>
> and just know that we're working with Unicode from that point forward.
>
>
>
>> I was going to read content into dictionary, each pair as tuple but
I gave
>> up, couldn't figure it out. Looks like it is working with the list so no
>> problem.
>>
>> Question 1: would be better to use dictionary, than list?
>
> It depends.
>
> If you're picking out a random entry, then having a dictionary in hand
> is not going to need the key lookup support that dictionaries give
> you.
>
> For the application you're describing right now, it doesn't sound like
> you need this yet.
>
>
>
>> Question 2: slo3.txt is just small sample for now and before I type
in all
>> words, I would like to know is it better to use some other separator
such as
>> coma or empty space instead of TAB? I found on the internet example
for TAB
>> only, so this is what I'm using for now.
>
> TAB is a reasonable separator. You might also consider comma, as in
> Comma-Separated Values (CSV).
>
> If your data starts having more structure, then check back with folks
> on the tutor mailing list. There are richer formats you can use, but
> your program's description suggests that you probably don't need the
> complexity yet.
>
>
>
>
>>
>> I need help with two things. First one is simple, basic, but I couldn't
>> figure it out. If I want to print out 'Wrong,,,,' part in the same
line next
>> to wrong answer, how do I do it?
>
> The print function puts a newline at the end. You can change this
> default behavior by providing an "end" keyword to it. The
> documentation mentions it here:
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#print
>
> Small test program to demonstrate:
>
> ################
> print("Hello ", end="")
> print("world ")
> ################
>
>
>
>> Now, big, huge help request.
>> I would like to make it easy on my wife instead of her needing to type
>> in answer I would like that she could choose (click on) multiple
choice. Say
>> she get 4 or 5 possible answers and one of them is correct. Then she
need to
>> click on correct answer...
>>
>> What do I need to do? I understand there will be some
graphic/windows things
>> involved. I don't have any additional packages or libraries
installed, nor
>> do I know what/how do do it. Complete noob....
>
> How about printing them with numbers, so that entry is just a number
> rather than the typed word?
>
>
> You can put a graphical user interface on the program, though it does
> take a bit more effort to get it to work.
>
> Look into "Tkinter", which is a library for producing graphical user
interfaces:
>
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter
>
>
>
> Another option might be to turn your program into a web site, so that
> the interface is the web browser, which everyone is getting used to
> these days. But this, too, is also... involved. :P
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