Question

I have to read a text file (notepad txt) which is in the format of:

Why are manhole covers round in shape?

The cover cannot fall through if it is circular._Circular covers do not need to be precisely aligned._A round cover is easy to move and roll._Human beings have a roughly circular cross section._All of the above.

5

What is the result of dividing 3 by 4?

1.33333...._0.75._12._7._7._0.7777777777777

2

In the series 1,2,3,4,5,...100, how many of these numbers have the digit 7 in them?

9._10._19._20._11

3

The answers are separated by (._) and the answer is the number that follows the question as it coresponds to the answer choices.

I want to have each set of questions stored as a tuple in a list. And I want to display on screen in the format as shown below.

1.Question
 1)First option  
 2)Second option  
 3)Third option
  #etc as there are more answers for some of the questions

2.  Question
 1) First option
 2) Second option
 3) Third option
 #etc as there are more answers for some of the questions

How do I write code to do so? Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

To pull this off you will need to do a couple steps.

Read in the file
- This can be done using the python open command https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-files
- You will either need to read the file into an array of lines or just do the next step as you are reading
Convert the data
- You will need to treat the lines in groups of threes. The eaisest way to do this is to track the line number and do different things based on index % 3
  - index % 3 = 0
    - Store the question in a temporary variable
  - index % 3 = 1
    - break the line along your ._ delimiter and store the resulting array in another temporary variable (https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.split)
  - index % 3 = 2
    - store the question and answers in the python tuple
Now that you have the tuple display it using standard output mechanisms

Read file as list of tuples and display in answer format

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