[Tutor] Fwd: Need help with find error

[Danny Yoo]

Forwarding to tutor.  Again, apologies that I didn't respond earlier.
Overloaded.


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From: Андрей Пугачев <pugachov.andrey at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Need help with find error
To: Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org>


Anybody can help with this?

2015-02-07 10:27 GMT+02:00 Андрей Пугачев <pugachov.andrey at gmail.com>:
>
> Sorry for my absense, but you want to say, that loop in code isn't working? (in main()-function)
> When category is empty code must print 2 last rows, but I have error....
>
> I learn python book M. Dawson and this exercise from his book.
> I add original working files, where points count as score +=1 and all works.
> But if I add some points to each question code don't work.
> I can't understand it/
>
>
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> 2015-02-04 20:24 GMT+02:00 Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org>:
>>
>> As a revision of my initial question, when we look at next_block(),
>> it's documented as follows:
>>
>> ############################################
>> def next_block(the_file):
>>     """Return the next block of data from the trivia file."""
>>     ....
>> ############################################
>>
>> What if there are no more blocks in the file?  What should happen then?
>>
>> Let's say that we do a test, where we pass in the empty file to next_block().
>>
>> ######################
>> from io import StringIO
>> x = next_block(StringIO(''))
>> ######################
>>
>> What do you want to happen in this situation?
>>
>> ---
>>
>> As a side note: if you have control over the data format, you might
>> want to consider using JSON rather than a line-based format.  If you
>> use JSON, this takes care of a few issues that you are working around
>> now.
>>
>> For example, you can reuse the newline escapes rather than define your
>> own convention.  Also, rather than read a stream of records, where you
>> have to deal with the end of the file, you might just read one JSON
>> object that represents your whole trivia file, which will simplify
>> your program's logic.
>>
>> See: https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html and use your favorite
>> web search engine for 'json python tutorial', and you should be able
>> to find some useful information.  If you have questions, please feel
>> free to ask.
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