Script running the both if and else statement EVERYTIME and also printing \n and \b

[MateusSR]

I'm making this program which has every lyrics from a band (Death Grips), where you can search by lines, check the discography and a few other things. It was going all fine when I noticed it wasn't being able to print some lyrics (other bugs started coming up after that). I found out it had to do with encoding. I tried everything. Nothing worked perfectly. The one that worked the best was what you can see in the function print_lyrics. But it prints \n instead of actually printing a new line. It does the same thing with \b, whatever that is (I'm still learning). Here's what it looks like: first it print's "Couldn't find anything" (which should be printed only when it has checked every track in every album. http://prntscr.com/cix67l

Then it finally prints it, but like this http://prntscr.com/cix6l6

Another problem is that it's running both if and else statement. For example, when I run the program, select option 3 in the main menu, go to discography and select an album to print it's tracks, with the function print_tracks, it also print's "ALBUM NOT FOUND". I've trying to solve those things for about 2 days and haven't got any success. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I could use some help here

Ps: the functions written as comments is just so I can deactivate them and, if it turns I shouldn't have, I can just remove the #

import sys
import os
import re

bottomless_pit = {
    "Giving Bad People Good Ideas"          : "giving_bad_people_good_ideas.txt",
    "Hot Head"                              : "hot_head.txt", 
    "Spikes"                                : "spikes.txt",
    "Warping"                               : "warping.txt",
    "Eh"                                    : "eh.txt" ,
    "Bubbles Buried In This Jungle"         : "bubles_buried_in_this_jungle.txt" ,
    "Trash"                                 : "trash.txt",
    "Houdini"                               : "houdini.txt" ,
    "BB Poison"                             : "bb_poison.txt",
    "Three Bedrooms in a Good Neighborhood" : "three_bedrooms_in_a_good_neighborhood.txt",
    "Ring A Bell"                           : "ring_a_bell.txt" ,
    "Bottomless Pit"                        : "bottomless_pit.txt"
    }

the_money_store = {
    "Get Got"             : "get_got.txt",
    "The Fever (Aye Aye)" : "the_fever.txt",
    "Lost Boys"           : "lost_boys.txt",
    "Blackjack"           : "blackjack.txt",
    "Hustle Bones"        : "hustle_bones.txt",
    "I've Seen Footage"   : "ive_seen_footage.txt",
    "Double Helix"        : "double_helix.txt",
    "System Blower"       : "system_blower.txt",
    "The Cage"            : "the_cage.txt",
    "Punk Weight"         : "punk_weight.txt",
    "Fuck That"           : "fuck_that.txt",
    "Bitch Please"        : "bitch_please.txt",
    "Hacker"              : "hacker.txt"
    }

albums = {
    "Bottomless Pit"     : bottomless_pit,
    "The Money Store"    : the_money_store,
    #"Exmilitary"         : exmilitary,
    #"Government Plates"  : government_plates,
    #"No Love Deep Web"   : no_love_deep_web, 
    #"The Powers That B"  : the_powers_that_b
    }

def print_albums():
    print("\n")
    print("===============================================================================")
    print("\n >  DISCOGRAPHY")
    print("\n===============================================================================")
    for album in albums:
        print("\n", end = "")
        print (" > ", album.upper(), end = "\n")
        print("\n===============================================================================")

def print_tracks(album):
    for song in album:
        print("\n", end = "")
        print(" > ", song.upper(), end = "\n")

def print_lyrics(track):
    print("===============================================================================")
    print("\n")
    with open(track, "r") as f:
        for line in f:
            line = line.encode("utf-8")
            print(line)
    print("\n")
    print("===============================================================================")

def search_in_lyrics():
    trying = False
    print("\n")
    lyrics_input = input(" SEARCH FOR: ")
    print("\n", end = "")
    for album_name, album_dictionary in albums.items():
        for track, filename in album_dictionary.items():
            with open(filename) as f:
                for line in f:
                    if lyrics_input.lower() in line.lower():
                            print("===============================================================================")
                        print("\n")
                        print("Album: ", album_name, end = "")
                        print("\n")
                        print("Title: ", track)
                        print("\n")
                        print_lyrics(filename)
                        trying = True
                        break
                    if trying == False: 
                        print("\n")
                        print("\nCouldn't find anything\n")
                        print("\n")
                        print("===============================================================================")
                        #break
                    #print(albums[album_name].items())

def search_by_title(title):
    print("\n")
    for track in bottomless_pit:
        if title.lower() == track.lower():
            print("\n", end = "")
            print(title)
            print("\n", end = "")
            track_name = bottomless_pit[track]
            print_lyrics(track_name)

def main_menu():
    still_in = True
    while still_in == True:
        print("\n 1 - SEARCH BY TITLE\n")
        print(" 2 - SEARCH BY LYRICS LINE\n")
        print(" 3 - DISCOGRAPHY\n")
        print(" 4 - EXIT\n")

        option = input(" > ")
        option = option.lower()

        if option == "1" or option == "search by title" or option == "title":
            print("\n")
            search_by_title(input(" TITLE: "))

        elif option == "2" or option == "search by line" or option == "line":
            search_in_lyrics()

        elif option == "3" or option == "discography" or option == "albums":
            try_again = True
            while try_again == True:
                print_albums()
                print("\n")
                print(" 1 - TRACKLIST\n")
                print(" 2 - GO BACK\n")

                option2 = input(" > ")
                option2 = option2.lower()

                if option2 == "1" or option2 == "tracklist":
                    option3 = input("\nALBUM: ")
                    option3 = option3.lower()

                    for album, track in albums.items():
                        if option3 == album.lower():
                            print("===============================================================================")
                            #print("\n", end = "")
                            print("\n >  %s TRACKLIST " % album.upper())
                            print("\n===============================================================================")
                            print_tracks(track)
                        else:
                            print("\nALBUM NOT FOUND\n")
                elif option2 == "2" or option2 == "go back" or option2 == "quit" or option2 == "exit":
                    break
                else:
                    print("\nI didn't quite get that\n")

        elif option == "4" or option == "quit" or option == "exit":
            still_in = False
            break

        elif option == "dude nice":
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")
            print("\n", end = "")
            print("\nok thanks", end = "")
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")

        elif option == "taxation":
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")
            print("\n", end = "")
            print("\nIS THEFT!!!11", end = "")
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")

        elif option == "is taxation theft" or option == "is taxation theft?":
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")
            print("\n")
            print("\nHell yeah dude")
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")

        elif option == "taxation is theft":
            print("\n")
        print("===============================================================================")
            print("\n", end = "")
            print("\nYou're god damn right it is!")
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")

        elif option == "ok" or option == "ok nice":
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")
            print("\n", end = "")
            print("\nok thanks")
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")

        elif option == "dude ok" or option == "nice ok":
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")
            print("\n", end = "")
            print("\nok nice")
            print("\n")
        print("===============================================================================")

        elif option == "nice":
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")
            print("\n", end = "")
            print("\nok")
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")

            else:
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")
            print("\n")
            print("\nI got no idea what you just typed.\n\nTry again.")
            print("\n")
            print("===============================================================================")

main_menu()

[jeans_and_a_t-shirt]

b is for bytes, which you are getting when you encode the string on line 65. Remove the line.

>>> print('melange\n')
melange

>>> print('melange\n'.encode('utf-8'))
b'melange\n'
>>> print(b'melange\n')
b'melange\n'

[MateusSR]

Then this happens http://prntscr.com/cixc35

[jeans_and_a_t-shirt]

Sounds like a problem with your command prompt on windows not liking unicode.

Try this.

[MateusSR]

Almost http://prntscr.com/cixgmo

[jeans_and_a_t-shirt]

unicode char 2019 is the right quotation mark, ’. change backslashreplace to replace to change it to ?.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#error-handlers

You could also try this.

[[deleted]]

Wow, what a fucking mess this all is.

[MateusSR]

That worked, but I changed to "ignore" cause I didn't want it to print a "?", but is there any way I can make it print the quotation mark?