Jan-09-2022, 07:45 AM
(This post was last modified: Jan-09-2022, 09:16 AM by Larz60+.
Edit Reason: fixed error tags
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I am doing an assignement program from a book. I need to write a program that
makes a test with 50 mutliple choice questions asking what the capital is of each state. Somehow i get
This is the script that i created:
makes a test with 50 mutliple choice questions asking what the capital is of each state. Somehow i get
Error:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Maarten\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310-32\randomQuizGenerator.py", line 57, in <module>
answerKeyFile.write('%s. %s%\n' %(questionNum +1, 'ABCD'[answerOptions.index(correctAnswer)]))
TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
What am i doing wrong? Any input is much appreciated!This is the script that i created:
#randomQuizGenerator.py import random capitals = {'Alabama': 'Montgomery', 'Alaska': 'Juneau', 'Arizona': 'Phoenix', 'Arkansas': 'Little Rock', 'California': 'Sacramento', 'Colorado': 'Denver', 'Connecticut': 'Hartford', 'Delaware': 'Dover', 'Florida': 'Tallahassee', 'Georgia': 'Atlanta', 'Hawaii': 'Honolulu', 'Idaho': 'Boise', 'Illinois': 'Springfield', 'Indiana': 'Indianapolis', 'Iowa': 'Des Moines', 'Kansas': 'Topeka', 'Kentucky': 'Frankfort', 'Louisiana': 'Baton Rouge', 'Maine': 'Augusta', 'Maryland': 'Annapolis', 'Massachusetts': 'Boston', 'Michigan': 'Lansing', 'Minnesota': 'Saint Paul', 'Mississippi': 'Jackson', 'Missouri': 'Jefferson City', 'Montana': 'Helena', 'Nebraska': 'Lincoln', 'Nevada': 'Carson City', 'New Hampshire': 'Concord', 'New Jersey': 'Trenton', 'New Mexico': 'Santa Fe', 'New York': 'Albany', 'North Carolina': 'Raleigh', 'North Dakota': 'Bismarck', 'Ohio': 'Columbus', 'Oklahoma': 'Oklahoma City', 'Oregon': 'Salem', 'Pennsylvania': 'Harrisburg', 'Rhode Island': 'Providence', 'South Carolina': 'Columbia', 'South Dakota': 'Pierre', 'Tennessee': 'Nashville', 'Texas': 'Austin', 'Utah': 'Salt Lake City', 'Vermont': 'Montpelier', 'Virginia': 'Richmond', 'Washington': 'Olympia', 'West Virginia': 'Charleston', 'Wisconsin': 'Madison', 'Wyoming': 'Cheyenne'} # generate 35 quiz files. for quizNum in range(35): #TODO: create the quiz and answer key files. quizFile=open('capitalsquiz%s.txt' %(quizNum+1),'w') answerKeyFile=open('capitalsquiz_answers%s.txt' % (quizNum+1), 'w') #TODO: write out the header for the quiz. quizFile.write('Name:\n\nDate:\n\nPeriod:\n\n') quizFile.write((' ' *20)+'State Capitals Quiz (Form %s)' %(quizNum+1)) quizFile.write('\n\n') #TODO: shuffle the order of states. states=list(capitals.keys()) random.shuffle(states) #TODO: loop through all 50 states, making a question for each. for questionNum in range(50): # get right and wrong answers. correctAnswer=capitals[states[questionNum]] wrongAnswers=list(capitals.values()) del wrongAnswers[wrongAnswers.index(correctAnswer)] wrongAnswers=random.sample(wrongAnswers,3) answerOptions=wrongAnswers+[correctAnswer] random.shuffle(answerOptions) #write the question and answer options to the quiz file. quizFile.write('%s. What is the capital of %s?\n' % (questionNum +1,states[questionNum])) for i in range(4): quizFile.write(' %s.%s\n' %('ABCD'[i], answerOptions[i])) quizFile.write('\n') #Write the answer key to a file. answerKeyFile.write('%s. %s%\n' %(questionNum +1, 'ABCD'[answerOptions.index(correctAnswer)])) quizFile.close() answerKeyFile.close()