Checks the users response against a model answer

03get_answer.py

"""Component 3 of elements Quiz project - Checking the users answer
Will check the users response against a model answer
Will also run a function that checks the spelling of the answer
Written by Nathan Smith
23/08/21"""


# This is the function from 3.5spell_check.py
def check_spell(correct_answer, user_answer):
    checking_list = []
    correct_list = []
    errors = 0
    # Putting all the words into lists so that I can manage them easier
    for letter in correct_answer:
        correct_list.append(letter)
    for letter in user_answer:
        checking_list.append(letter)
    # If the length is not the right length or is not 1
    # over the right length, the word must have more than 1
    # error in it so it is automatically returning bad

    # If the word is 1 letter over then that's fine because the spell
    # checker lets through 1 mistake and an added letter is a mistake
    if len(checking_list)-1 == len(correct_list) or\
            len(checking_list) == len(correct_list):
        pass
    else:
        return "bad"
    # If the word is the right length then it does this bit of code
    if len(checking_list) == len(correct_list):
        # Goes through every letter of the word and
        # checks it against the exemplar
        for i in range(len(checking_list)):
            if correct_list[i] == checking_list[i]:
                pass
            else:
                try:
                    # This means that if the letters are mixed up it only
                    # gives 1 error in total, not 2
                    if (correct_list[i] == checking_list[i-1] and
                        correct_list[i-1] == checking_list[i]) or \
                            (correct_list[i] == checking_list[i+1] and
                             correct_list[i+1] == checking_list[i]):
                        errors += 0.5
                    else:
                        errors += 1
                except IndexError:
                    errors += 1
    # This bit sees if the extra letter is the only mistake in the word
    else:
        for i in range(len(checking_list)-1):
            if correct_list[i] == checking_list[i]:
                pass
            else:
                if len(checking_list) == len(correct_list)+1:
                    del checking_list[i]
                errors += 1
    if errors > 1:
        return "bad"
    else:
        return "fine"


def ask_question(question, answer, question_type):
    global right_answers
    global wrong_answers
    # Makes it so that it only spell checks if it is asking for the element
    if question_type == "element":
        tries = 0
        # Gets the input
        user_answer = input(question)
        while True:
            # Makes it so that it is not case sensitive
            if user_answer.lower() == answer.lower():
                print("Correct!")
                right_answers += 1
                break
            else:
                # If it is wrong, run it through the spell checking function
                foo = check_spell(answer, user_answer)
                if foo == "bad":
                    print("Sorry, that was not the correct answer, "
                          "\nThe correct answer was: {}\n".format(answer))
                    wrong_answers += 1
                    break
                else:
                    # Makes it so that once they have spelt it wrong once
                    # they can only have one more try to get it right
                    if tries < MAX_TRIES:
                        print("Are you sure you've spelt that"
                              " correctly?\nHave another go: \n")
                        user_answer = input(question)
                        tries += 1
                        continue
                    else:
                        print("Sorry, that was not the correct answer, "
                              "\nThe correct answer was: {}\n".format(answer))
                        wrong_answers += 1
                        break
    else:
        # The part for if it is asking about a symbol
        user_answer = input(question)
        if user_answer == answer:
            print("Correct!")
            right_answers += 1
            # Makes it so that if the error is in the case
            # then it tells the user that
        elif user_answer.lower() == answer.lower():
            print("Sorry, that's incorrect, remember"
                  " that the symbols are case sensitive")
            wrong_answers += 1
        else:
            print("Sorry, that was not the correct answer, "
                  "\nThe correct answer was: {}\n".format(answer))
            wrong_answers += 1


MAX_TRIES = 1
right_answers = 0
wrong_answers = 0
ask_question("", "Na", "symbol")