Hey all,
I am writing a program to drill the user on Latin demonstrative pronouns and
adjectives (DPA). It displays a description, and the user has to enter the DPA
that corresponds to the description. DPA vary for gender, number and case, and
there are 3 separate DPA. I have these stored in a bunch of dictionaries, with
the DPA, gender and number in the dictionary name and the cases as keys. Of
course, the values are the DPA themselves. Like so:
that_those_Masculine_Singular = {'nom': 'ille', 'gen': 'illīus', 'dat': 'illī',
'acc': 'illum', 'abl': 'illō'}
I have a function that randomly selects one of these dictionaries, and another
that randomly selects strings corresponding to the keys ('nom', 'gen', etc.).
The trouble begins somewhere along here:
D = chooseDict()
c = chooseCase()
print(D, c)
guess = ''
# code to get the guess
# then,
answer = D[c]
if guess == answer:
# Do stuff, change score, continue, etc.
This doesn't work, and I get this error:
TypeError: string indices must be integers
So my question is, why does Python think that D is a string? When I type the
actual names (i.e., that_those_Masculine_Singular["nom"]) the answer is
returned just fine. I have tried D['c'] and D["c"] also, and got the same
error. I searched the web, and I can find no explanation on how to do what I am
doing, and I can find nothing that indicates why this doesn't work. I'd really
appreciate any help!
Thank you,
J
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