如何在破折号前打印一个单词？

Question

I am making a single player guessing game on capital cities, where the country and the first letter of the capital city are displayed and the user has 2 guesses to input the correct answer.

In an external .txt, I have the countries and cities stored, where they are separated by a '-'. Here is an example of how they are formatted:

England - London

France - Paris

India - New Dehli

Say the 2nd line was randomly selected, I want the program to output this:

"The country is France and the first letter of the capital city is P. Try and guess!"

Any help would be appreciated! :)

Answer 1

so random text is the chosen text. You then split it by ' - ' and that creates a list like this ['France', 'Paris'] so then using the 'f' string you put in those variable but remember that they are a list so to access the country you need to access list index 0 which is first item in list like this random_text[0] for the first letter in word 'Paris' you first access the word like this random_text[1] which is the second item in the list and then you access that items' first character like this random_text[1][0] and print it out

random_text = 'France - Paris'
random_text = random_text.split(' - ')
print(f'The country is {random_text[0]} and the first letter of the capital city is {random_text[1][0]}. Try and guess!')

Answer 2

Because you know what's your data looks like (XXX - YYY), a simple split by dash and white spaces will do:

selected = "England - London"
country, city = selected.split(" - ")
print(f"The country is {country} and the city is {city}")

Answer 3

Use split.(), it's really useful in sperating strings. The code:

city = ["England - London","France - Paris","India - New Dehli"]
random_guess = city.split(' - ')

If you want to print random country and it's capital city, you'll need to import random

import random
city = ["England - London","France - Paris","India - New Dehli"]
random_guess = random.choice(city).split(' - ')
print("The country is",random_guess[0],"and the first letter of the capital city 
is",random_guess[1][0])

You can later add more element into the city list.

Answer 4

This is my solution.

import re

exp = re.compile(r"(?P<country>\w+)[ ]*-[ ]*(?P<city>\w+)")


def __test(text):
    match = exp.match(text)
    print("The country is {country} and the city is {city}".format(**match.groupdict()))
    
    
__test("England - London")