I am currently working through the python for absolute beginners 3rd addition. I am struggling with the 2nd challenge in the 7th chapter of the book, as i keep getting an error i don't understand.
The challenge is to:
"improve triva challenge game so that it maintains a high score list in a file. The program should records the player's name and score if the player makes the list. store the high scores using a pickled object."
The original code
# Trivia Challenge
# Trivia game that reads a plain text file
import sys
def open_file(file_name, mode):
"""Open a file."""
try:
the_file = open(file_name, mode)
except IOError as e:
print("Unable to open the file", file_name, "Ending program.\n", e)
input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
sys.exit()
else:
return the_file
def next_line(the_file):
"""Return next line from the trivia file, formatted."""
line = the_file.readline()
line = line.replace("/", "\n")
return line
def next_block(the_file):
"""Return the next block of data from the trivia file."""
category = next_line(the_file)
question = next_line(the_file)
answers = []
for i in range(4):
answers.append(next_line(the_file))
correct = next_line(the_file)
if correct:
correct = correct[0]
explanation = next_line(the_file)
return category, question, answers, correct, explanation
def welcome(title):
"""Welcome the player and get his/her name."""
print("\t\tWelcome to Trivia Challenge!\n")
print("\t\t", title, "\n")
def main():
trivia_file = open_file("trivia.txt", "r")
title = next_line(trivia_file)
welcome(title)
score = 0
# get first block
category, question, answers, correct, explanation = next_block(trivia_file)
while category:
# ask a question
print(category)
print(question)
for i in range(4):
print("\t", i + 1, "-", answers[i])
# get answer
answer = input("What's your answer?: ")
# check answer
if answer == correct:
print("\nRight!", end=" ")
score += 1
else:
print("\nWrong.", end=" ")
print(explanation)
print("Score:", score, "\n\n")
# get next block
category, question, answers, correct, explanation = next_block(trivia_file)
trivia_file.close()
print("That was the last question!")
print("You're final score is", score)
main()
input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
my attempt at the challenge code
# Trivia Challenge
# Trivia game that reads a plain text file
import sys, pickle
def open_file(file_name, mode):
"""Open a file."""
try:
the_file = open(file_name, mode)
except IOError as e:
print("Unable to open the file", file_name, "Ending program.\n", e)
input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
sys.exit()
else:
return the_file
def next_line(the_file):
"""Return next line from the trivia file, formatted."""
line = the_file.readline()
line = line.replace("/", "\n")
return line
def next_block(the_file):
"""Return the next block of data from the trivia file."""
category = next_line(the_file)
points = next_line(the_file)
question = next_line(the_file)
answers = []
for i in range(4):
answers.append(next_line(the_file))
correct = next_line(the_file)
if correct:
correct = correct[0]
explanation = next_line(the_file)
return category, points, question, answers, correct, explanation
def welcome(title):
"""Welcome the player and get his/her name."""
print("\t\tWelcome to Trivia Challenge!\n")
print("\t\t", title, "\n")
def high_scores():
global score
value = int(score)
name = input("What is your name? ")
entry = (value, name)
f = open("high_scores.dat", "wb+")
high_scores = pickle.load(f)
high_scores.append(entry)
high_scores = high_scores[:5]
print("High Scores\n")
print("NAME\tSCORE")
for entry in high_scores:
value, name = entry
print(name, "\t", value)
pickle.dump(high_scores, f)
f.close()
def main():
trivia_file = open_file("trivia.txt", "r")
title = next_line(trivia_file)
welcome(title)
# get first block
category, points, question, answers, correct, explanation = next_block(trivia_file)
while category:
# ask a question
print(category)
print(question)
for i in range(4):
print("\t", i + 1, "-", answers[i])
# get answer
answer = input("What's your answer?: ")
# check answer
if answer == correct:
print("\nRight!", end=" ")
j = int(points)
global score
score += j
else:
print("\nWrong.", end=" ")
print(explanation)
print("Score:", score, "\n\n")
# get next block
category, points, question, answers, correct, explanation = next_block(trivia_file)
trivia_file.close()
print("That was the last question!")
print("You're final score is", score)
high_scores()
score = 0
main()
input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
And the wonderfully confusing error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Cheyne\Desktop\Python\chapter07\Challenges\temp.py", line 104, in <module>
main()
File "C:\Users\Cheyne\Desktop\Python\chapter07\Challenges\temp.py", line 100, in main
high_scores()
File "C:\Users\Cheyne\Desktop\Python\chapter07\Challenges\temp.py", line 54, in high_scores
high_scores = pickle.load(f)
File "C:\Python31\lib\pickle.py", line 1365, in load
encoding=encoding, errors=errors).load()
EOFError
Can anyone help explain what's going wrong here please? I have been staring at it for days.
