[Tutor] Translator - multiple choice answer

[Mario Py]

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 <dyoo at 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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