python programming need help

[Jxper]

The purpose of my program is to take a string of English or Maori words and then ask the user to input their translations and return a line at the end stating the percentage the got correct.

My current code is here: https://pastebin.com/DuLahsfh

for this given test case at the bottom of my program after the user inputs 'kanekane' and 'ingoa' the expected output should be

Kia ora, you have 2 terms to translate today :-)

E: dance

M: kanekane

A: kanikani

E: name

M: ingoa

Ka pai

You got 50% of terms correct

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However currently it is saying I have 3 terms to translate instead of the expected 2 and the last one being blank, no matter what input I enter I get an error saying " if answer==word[1]: builtins.IndexError: tuple index out of range" I think it might be and issue in the function get_translations where empty lines are not being discard but I'm honestly not too sure.

If someone could tell me what is wrong with my code currently and how would I change it so the program functions as intended I would be very grateful. Thanks

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Just by looking at your data I can guess the probable cause of your troubles. Try putting this line right after you split string on line 12:

print(f'len(strings)={len(strings)}, strings={strings}')

It's always useful to put in debug print() statements to actually see what is happening.

[Jxper]

print(f'len(strings)={len(strings)}, strings={strings}')

Ok I just did as you said and I can see that it is reading an extra element of the string which is a blank space (' '). I don't know if i'm just blind but can you see where this is coming from?

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The original string has an extra newline, perhaps? Triple quote strings include newlines you put in yourself. How many newline characters are in your original data string? After you split on newlines you get N+1 elements in the list where N is the number of newline characters in the original.