country-capital.py

# This program fetches capitals file from working directory,
# converts 'list' which has list of countries and 'dict' which maps countries and its capitals.
# The list of countries will be shuffled and user will be asked to its capital

import random

c=0

f = open("capitals.txt", "r+")
str = f.read();

#Split colon and whitespaces
li=str.split(':') and str.split()

while ':' in li:
 li.remove(':')

# Hashmap for 'country' and 'capital'
new = dict(zip(li[::2],li[1::2]))

# Create 'list' for country from 'dict'
country=list(new.keys())

random.shuffle(country)

for i in range(len(country)):
  print("\nCapital of %s ?"%(country[i]))
  ans=input()
  if new[country[i]] == ans:
    print("Your answer is correct")
    c=c+1;
  else: print("Your answer is incorrect")

print("\nYou answered %d times correctly"%(c))