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I would like create a trivial challenge ! But it's not working as I would. This is my code :

import os
with open('questions','r') as file:
 l = 0
 question = []
 right_guess = []
 wrong_guess_1 = []
 wrong_guess_2 = []
 for line in file:
 content_line = []
 for char in line:
 content_line.append(char)
 if l == 0:
 question.append(content_line)
 l = 1
 elif l == 1:
 right_guess.append(content_line)
 l = 2
 elif l == 2:
 wrong_guess_1.append(content_line)
 l = 3
 elif l == 3:
 wrong_guess_2.append(content_line)
 l = 4
 if l == 4:
 break
 print(question)
 print(right_guess)
 print(wrong_guess_1)
 print(wrong_guess_2)
 input('Awnser : ')

Ok, now let's me explain the two problems. I've try my code with this question file structure ( there is no extention, it's just 'question' ) :

 a question
 the right anwser
 false guess
 false guess
 a other question
 the right anwser
 false guess
 false guess

here a example, if you don't understand :

 How does 1 + 1 ?
 3
 0
 5

Obviously the answer is the second line : 3 ! ( just kidding, it's 2, I know :D )
So, let's back to our problem : I've start the code and it's give me this result :

 [[ 'H', 'o', 'w', ' ', 'd', 'o', 'e', 's', ' ', '1', '+', '1', ' ', '?', 'n']]
 [[ 'H', 'o', 'w', ' ', 'd', 'o', 'e', 's', ' ', '1', '+', '1', ' ', '?', 'n']]
 [[ 'H', 'o', 'w', ' ', 'd', 'o', 'e', 's', ' ', '1', '+', '1', ' ', '?', 'n']]
 [[ 'H', 'o', 'w', ' ', 'd', 'o', 'e', 's', ' ', '1', '+', '1', ' ', '?', 'n']]
 Answer :

I don't really understand where is the problem but I hope someone will help me to get this result :

 How does 1+1 ?
 2
 0
 5
 Answer

And if some of poeple who will watching this page are really crazy, I could expect have this result :

 (the program take one question, randomly, in the whole file)
 the chosen one
 one of the three possibles guests
 one other of the three possibles guests
 a third possible guest
 ( And we don't know which one is the correct )
 Answer :

I think this is all, thank to anyone who will try to give a clue, a element or who will contribute to this little program !

Your first problem is here:

content_line = []
for char in line:
 content_line.append(char)

None of this is needed. Just use line for the next few lines:

for line in file:
 if l == 0:
 question.append(line)

etc

The code in the question does not give the same line multiple times as an output. If that was an issue, it is not represented in this code.

The reason you're getting lists instead of strings as a result is that you're explicitly making those lists:

 content_line = []
 for char in line:
 content_line.append(char)

If you simply used line directly (or line.rstrip() if you want to remove the newline at the end), you would get a line of text for each line in the file.

The reason you're getting lists inside of lists is that you're not only putting characters in a list, you're then appending those to another list. As it seems you only have one item per list, and that you expect a single string from printing the list, you could simply replace those lists by the strings.

Instead of appending to lists, just assign to the variables:

 for line in file:
 # Remove trailing whitespace at the end of the line
 content_line = line.rstrip()
 if l == 0:
 question = content_line
 l = 1
 elif l == 1:
 right_guess = content_line
 l = 2
 elif l == 2:
 wrong_guess_1 = content_line
 l = 3
 elif l == 3:
 wrong_guess_2 = content_line
 l = 4

Ok, so this look to be the final code :

for line in file:
 # Remove trailing whitespace at the end of the line
 content_line = line.rstrip()
 if l == 0:
 question = content_line
 l = 1
 elif l == 1:
 right_guess = content_line
 l = 2
 elif l == 2:
 wrong_guess_1 = content_line
 l = 3
 elif l == 3:
 wrong_guess_2 = content_line
 l = 4

Thank you quamrana, user1018651 and anyone who ave put a comment to help me !
Anyway, It still a 'little' thing to fix and I think this is the hardest one :
Transform this code for add the random questions and get, at end, this :

 (the program take one question, randomly, in the whole file)
 the chosen one
 one of the three possibles guests
 one other of the three possibles guests
 a third possible guest
 ( And we don't know which one is the correct )
 Answer :