text-regex questions now accept also a list of regular expressions to

match. It's considered correct if any match is found.

text-regex questions now accept also a list of regular expressions to
match. It's considered correct if any match is found.
Miguel Barão
1 parent f4809e6f
Showing 1 changed file with 23 additions and 10 deletions Show diff stats
aprendizations/questions.py
@@ -257,8 +257,11 @@ class QuestionTextRegex(Question):
     '''An instance of QuestionTextRegex will always have the keys:
         type (str)
         text (str)
-        correct (str with regex)
+        correct (str or list[str])
         answer (None or an actual answer)
+
+        The correct strings are python standard regular expressions.
+        Grade is 1.0 when the answer matches any of the regex in the list.
     '''
     # ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -267,19 +270,29 @@ class QuestionTextRegex(Question):
         self.set_defaults(QDict({
             'text': '',
-            'correct': '$.^',   # will always return false
+            'correct': ['$.^'],   # will always return false
             }))
+        # make sure its always a list of regular expressions
+        if not isinstance(self['correct'], list):
+            self['correct'] = [self['correct']]
+
+        # make sure all elements of the list are strings
+        self['correct'] = [str(a) for a in self['correct']]
+
     # ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     def correct(self) -> None:
         super().correct()
         if self['answer'] is not None:
-            try:
-                ok = re.match(self['correct'], self['answer'])
-            except TypeError:
-                logger.error(f'While matching regex {self["correct"]} with '
-                             f'answer {self["answer"]}.')
-            self['grade'] = 1.0 if ok else 0.0
+            self['grade'] = 0.0
+            for r in self['correct']:
+                try:
+                    if re.match(r, self['answer']):
+                        self['grade'] = 1.0
+                        return
+                except TypeError:
+                    logger.error(f'While matching regex {self["correct"]} with'
+                                 f' answer "{self["answer"]}".')
 # ============================================================================
@@ -421,8 +434,8 @@ class QuestionInformation(Question):
 # To generate an instance of a question we use the method generate().
 # It returns a question instance of the correct class.
 # There is also an asynchronous version called gen_async(). This version is
-# synchronous for all question types (radio, checkbox, etc) except for generator
-# types which run asynchronously.
+# synchronous for all question types (radio, checkbox, etc) except for
+# generator types which run asynchronously.
 #
 # Example:
 #