On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:27:35PM -0400, tyler wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:56:17AM -0500, Kent Johnson wrote:
> > Tyler Smith wrote:
> >
> >> That cleaned up a lot. However, I couldn't figure out a way to do
> >> random.choice(word_hash[(w1, w2)]) on a dict with set-type values.
> >
> > Ah
Tyler Smith wrote:
> That cleaned up a lot. However, I couldn't figure out a way to do
> random.choice(word_hash[(w1, w2)]) on a dict with set-type values.
Ah, sorry; random.choice() needs an indexable sequence. Try
w1, w2 = w2, random.sample(word_hash[(w1, w2)], 1)[0]
random.sample() works w
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:35:08PM -0500, Kent Johnson made several
helpful suggestions:
Thanks!
That cleaned up a lot. However, I couldn't figure out a way to do
random.choice(word_hash[(w1, w2)]) on a dict with set-type values. The
closest I could get was word_hash[(w1, w2)].pop(), but then I n
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:35:08PM -0500, Kent Johnson made several
helpful suggestions:
Thanks!
That cleaned up a lot. However, I couldn't figure out a way to do
random.choice(word_hash[(w1, w2)]) on a dict with set-type values. The
closest I could get was word_hash[(w1, w2)].pop(), but then I n
Tyler Smith wrote:
> iflist = ifstring.replace('\n', ' ').split()
The replace is not needed, split() splits on any whitespace including
newlines.
> # build hash of form (prefix1, prefix2): [word]
> word_hash = {}
> for i in range(len(iflist) - 2):
> pr1 = iflist[i]
> pr2 = iflist[i+1]
>
Hi,
I'm a middling amateur coder in C and elisp, trying to wrap my head around
python syntax. I've implemented the code for the markov chain random
text generator from Kernighan and Pike's "The practice of
programming", and I'd appreciate any tips on how to make it more
pythonic.
The code appears
