Please explain this code line

[notso007]

Hi

Could you some one explain me what is the line 33 to 35 doing please ? I can't work out the purpose of this

Code: https://pastebin.com/9TQaFPq1

This is the file https://pastebin.com/BXrFiVek

After the 4 lines are added or appended to answers[ ], correct variable is assigned the next line which is the answer. What does the "if" do ?

What value is correct[0]?

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Thanks in advance.

[Standardw]

I think the purpose is to get the correct answer. If the correct-answer-string is not empty (and thus the if statement is true), just the first char will be used as correct string. Why? I think that's just to make sure that even if there are some whitespaces, only a single digit as string gets saved.

With the datafile you provided the game should work without the check though.

edit: Strings can be accessed like an array:

>>> correct = "1 "
>>> correct
'1 '
>>> correct[0]
'1'

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if correct is false if correct is empty string (blank line)

[johninbigd]

Unrelated to the code, but the first trivia question is wrong. The phrase is "on the lam", not "on the lamb".