Generate First Letter Problem Using Source from "China Daily"

GFLPUCD.py

import urllib.request
import io
import sys
import json
import re
import random

print('''
Generate First Letter Problem Using Source China Daily
By XGN from HHS 2020
V1.1 build 20201209
''')

searchCnt=int(input("Enter search page count:"))

res=[]

def search(s,source,find):

    global res
    x=re.compile("\\?|\\!|\\.").split(s)

    for i in x:
        if " "+find.lower()+" " in " "+i.lower()+" ":
            res.append([i.replace(find,find[0]+"_______")+"(From "+source+")",find])
    pass

def lookFor(word):
    print("Trying to download:",word)

    global searchCnt
    
    for i in range(searchCnt):
        print("Searching Page",i)
        
        base="http://newssearch.chinadaily.com.cn/rest/en/search?keywords=%s&sort=dp&page=%d&curType=story&type=&channel=&source="
        try:
            request=urllib.request.Request(base%(word,i))
            response=urllib.request.urlopen(request)
            html=response.read()
            ret=html.decode('utf-8')

            js=json.loads(ret,encoding="utf-8")

            for article in js["content"]:
                search(article["plainText"],article["title"],word)
        except:
            print("Failed to fetch!:")

with open('in.txt',mode='r') as f:
    keywords=f.readlines()
    for i in keywords:
        lookFor(i.strip())

    random.shuffle(res)

    with open('out.txt',mode='w') as f2:
        f2.write("Questions:\n")
        for i in range(len(res)):
            f2.write("%d. %s\n\n"%(i+1,res[i][0]))
            
    with open('ans.txt',mode='w') as f3:
        f3.write("Answers:\n")
        for i in range(len(res)):
            f3.write("%d. %s\n"%(i+1,res[i][1]))

What is this

This is a small program to grab sentences from China Daily, erase some keywords and ask you to solve them with the first letter given.

How to use

First create a file in the same folder called in.txt

Put all words you want to make problems in it, one in a line.

Then run the program, it will ask you to enter an integer - the search page limit. Bigger number will give you more problems, but will take longer to generate. If you are not sure, please enter 1 (which is about 10 problems for each word)

Wait for it to end and open the out.txt and ans.txt!

Example

in.txt

out.txt

ans.txt

Known issues

1. doesn't work for words with '-'

2. you need to enter different forms of words manually, like participate and participated

3. some sentences are wrongly cropped

4. sometimes show the suffix of the string too

5. now sometimes doesn't clip the word out

v1.1 update log: Fixed issue #4