Cannot Assign right Answers To Shuffled Questions

[Boblows]

Hello guys,just started coding with python and come up with an idea of writing multiple choice exam wich shuffles the questions with random.shuffle if you want to resolve it again...

Everything goes fine until code shuffles the questions but i cant assign answer choices to the questions so as questions shuffle answer choices stays the same

For example Question 1 has A) 1 B)2 C)3 D)4 E)5 when code shuffles the questions Question 1 becomes Question 2 but answer choices stays the same.

[buran]

keep questions and answer together in suitable data structure and shuffle the pairs not just questions.

[deanhystad]

A dictionary is a natural for storing exam questions.

exam = {Q1:A1, Q2:A2, Q3:A3...QN:AN}

Each Q:A is an item with a key (Q) and value (A).

Dictionaries work almost anywhere lists work. You could use the random library to make a pop quiz from you exam questions.

pop_quiz = random.sample(exam, k=5)

[BashBedlam]

You only need to shuffle the references to the questions and answers not the questions them selves. Observe :

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from random import randint   questions = ['What is 2 plus 2?',         'Why is there air?',         'Who wrote the book of love?']   answers = ['a) 1\nb) 2\nc) 3\nd) 4',         'a) To Breath\nb) To fly kits\nc) To fill volley balls\nd) All of the above',         'a) Donald Trump\nb) BashBedlam\nc) The Monotones\nd) God']   correct_answers = ['d', 'd', 'c']   question_number = randint (0, 2) print (questions [question_number]) print (answers [question_number]) print (f'The answer is {correct_answers [question_number]}.')

[Boblows]

How do i prevent same questions to appear?

[DeaD_EyE]

The idea is to have a list with questions.
To get a new question, you pop() one element from the list.
To have a list with shuffled questions, random.shuffle() will do the job.

Here an overengineered example with typing stuff (not required) and a dataclass.

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import random from dataclasses import dataclass from typing import List     @dataclass class Question:     """     Dataclass to store a question together with     the right answer and wrong answers     """       question: str     answer: str     wrong_answers: List[str]     def ask_answer(question: str, size: int, exit_answer: str = "q"):     """     Ask the user to choose an answer and return the integer of answer minus 1.     """     while True:         value = input(question)         if value.lower() == exit_answer:             return SystemExit         try:             result = int(value)         except ValueError:             print(value, "is not an integer")             continue         if 1 <= result <= size:             return result - 1         else:             print(f"Selection {result} is out of range")     def ask(question: Question):     answers = [question.answer, *question.wrong_answers]     random.shuffle(answers)     print(question.question)     for index, answer in enumerate(answers, 1):         print(f"{index}) {answer}")     choice = ask_answer("Please enter the number of the answer: ", len(answers))     if choice is SystemExit:         return SystemExit     return answers[choice] == question.answer     def game() -> None:     """     Logic for game     """     score = 0     print("Question - answer game")     print("Score -1 is allowed")     print("*" * 34)     print()     while questions:  # looping until questions is empty         print("Current score:", score)         question = questions.pop()         result = ask(question)         if result is SystemExit:             return         elif result:             score += 1         else:             score -= 1         if score < -1:             print("You lost!")             return         print()     else:         print("No more questions")         print("Score:", score)     questions: List[Question] = [     Question("Your Question 1", "right 1", ["This is wrong", "this also", "..."]),     Question("Your Question 2", "right 2", ["This is wrong", "this also", "..."]),     Question("Your Question 3", "right 3", ["This is wrong", "this also", "..."]), ] random.shuffle(questions)     if __name__ == "__main__":     try:         game()     except KeyboardInterrupt:         print("Giveup")

If you want to repeat the questions, you need to make a copy from the original list, shuffle the copy and pop the elements from the copy.

[buran]

Actually there is no need to pop(). pop() will reindex the list you pop from. This would not make difference for small list, but is good to know. It's enough to shuffle the list and iterate over shuffled list. In case you need less than all questions - just break out of the loop.