[Tutor] python question

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Some comments on your code, after David & Kent:

* repetition
You have probably noticed that your programm repeats over and over the same 
pattern, that could be called "process of a question". One major point of 
programming is precisely to cope with such a repetitive task (this was true 
even before electronics was invented with mechanical programms!).
The trick is to write down the overall pattern, and then use it each time it is 
needed. It will build a kind of brick that you have to put inside a function to 
be able to call it. Ask us if you need help or tips for that.

* main script
There seems to be a kind of script that guides the progression of your quizz 
(esp. when music comes into play, sic:-)). This, not the repetition of 
questions, can form the main part of your programm. From there would then be 
called the question-process function.
If there is no real change instead, no progression, then this main prog simply 
is a loop, as Kent says. You just need to define a way to get out of it! 
Meaning when/why/how to quit the programm?

Both of these points lead you to *structure* your code. Presently your programm 
is 'flat'; meaning it has not yet a shape that shows off its logic. When a 
programm is properly organised, then its shape looks like what it does. And it 
tells the reader -- yourself, first -- about it.

* text
Get rid of all that mass of text! There are several ways to do that:
-1- Give each of your texts a name (Qn,An,...). Use these names to program the 
logic. Associate a value to all of these names, creating 'constants', at e.g. 
the head of your programm.
-2- Do the same, but in a separate file, called a 'module'. Then import this 
module at start. If you need help for that, ask.
-3- When everything works good, then an interesting challenge may be to make 
your set of texts be a real text file. Much better to manage and edit. You need 
to write a fonction that is able to cope with a file, read it, analyse it, 
properly process the data hidden in it...

Denis


Daniel J Kramer a écrit :
 > Hi
 >
 > I have just joined this list. I need some help working on a Python
 > application I am working on.  I am working on a quiz game where the users
 > gain points when the answer questions correctly.  I have written the
 > skeleton of the quiz with If, Elif and Else statements.  it runs perfectly.
 >
 > I am very unclear on how to score points at the end of each round and how to
 > import images.
 >
 > Can anyone help out here or have any ideas on the best way to execute this?
 > I have included a copy of the quiz so you can get an idea of what I am
 > trying to do
 >
 > thank you so much and I look forward to hearing from you soon