"Your whole approach is very fragile in this respect, it only takes one small mistake in the data to wreck your program,. Somethjing like a config file format would be much more robust (and readable) the config reader module would make sure you got what you expected back. "
Can you please explain more on what you mean by this? Alan Gauld wrote: > > > "Vincent Balmori" <vincentbalm...@yahoo.com> wrote > >> It's working fine now with the scoring, but now at the end of the >> program >> for some reason I get this error message: >> > "/Users/vincentbalmori/Desktop/Python/py3e_source/chapter07/trivia_challenge2.py", >> line 27, in next_block >> point = int(next_line(the_file)) >> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '' > > Thats because after the last question you try to read another > block and don't check anywhere whether you actually read > anything. Your next_block code just assumes there will > always be valid data there, but at the end of the file there > won't be. You get away with category being blank > because replace() doesn't complain. But int() does. > > Your whole approach is very fragile in this respect, it only > takes one small mistake in the data to wreck your program,. > Somethjing like a config file format would be much more > robust (and readable) the config reader module would make > sure you got what you expected back. > > HTH, > > > -- > Alan Gauld > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Trivia-tp31917610p31917979.html Sent from the Python - tutor mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
