feat: prompt the user asking for the number of solutions they actually need

[SpaciousCoder78]

Forgot to work on this but search.py has a hardcoded number of solutions that open in the browser. You can add a new feature to prompt the user to ask for the number of solutions they need once the error shows up

Files to edit: search.py

Detailed Explanation:

pyoverflow3.submit_error(str(stderr),2)

This line in search.py has a hardcoded number 2 into it representing 2 solutions to be opened in the browser.

Instead, prompt the user immediately after the error appears asking for the no of solutions they need

[Ekleen123]

I’d like to work on this issue. Please assign it to me
Thanks

[SpaciousCoder78]

Assigned. Good luck with the issue! It's an easy one for a beginner.

[SpaciousCoder78]

Also ensure that you're tagging this issue while making your pull request

[Ekleen123]

@SpaciousCoder78
I wanted to clarify something about the feature update in search.py. As instructed, I’ve added a prompt to ask the user how many solutions they’d like to see instead of hardcoding it to 2.

However, when a user enters a number greater than the actual number of solutions available, the code throws a list index out of range error.
should I:

• keep it as it is where the maximum solutions they can ask for is 10, opening however many are available, or
• First check how many solutions are available using get_solutions(...), and then only show that many?
  Please let me know the preference!

[SpaciousCoder78]

There’s nothing like get_solutions because the underlying mechanism is a simple google search scraping engine so if you go that way it’ll be an infinite loop.

Limiting the solutions is the way to go.