separation_quest_ans.py

#---Using Regex to retrieve questions and answers
import re
import json

def getQuestionAndOption():
    hand = open('Scraped_Text.txt',"r")
    # #print(hand.readlines())
    # quest = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
    # rows, cols = (50, 3)
    qno = dict()
    answers = dict()

    i=0

    for line in hand:
        line = line.rstrip()
        if re.search('^[1-9]\. .*', line) or re.search('^[1-9][0-9]\. .*', line):
            i=i+1
            ques = "<b>"+line[3:].strip()+"</b>"
            qno[ques] = list()
            answers[ques] = ""
        if re.search('^[a-d]\).*', line):
            qno[ques].append(line)
        if re.search('^View Answer Answer:.*', line) or re.search('^View AnswerAnswer:.*', line):
            answers[ques] = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z]+', '', line[19:22])    

    def filterTheDict(dictObj, callback):
        newDict = dict()
        for (key, value) in dictObj.items():
            if callback((key, value)):
                newDict[key] = value
        return newDict

    new_qno = filterTheDict(qno, lambda elem : "following" not in elem[0])
    new_answers = filterTheDict(answers, lambda elem : "following" not in elem[0])

    my_list = []
    my_list.append(new_qno)
    my_list.append(new_answers)

    return my_list

    #print(json.dumps(new_qno, indent=1))
    #print(json.dumps(new_answers, indent=1))

#getQuestionAndOption()