Duri Denoth wrote:
> Hello Tutor
>
> I have written a program that generates verb conjugations.
>
> There is a loop that generates the regular forms:
>
> for i in range(6):
> present[i] = stem + worded_present_ar[i]
An alternative way to write this is
present = [stem + suffix for suffix in worded_present_ar]
> For irregular verbs the correct form is set individually:
>
> present[2] = stem + worded_present_rule_7[2]
Does this mean that all forms but the 3rd person singular are regular? You
could set up a dictionary
irregular_forms = {
"go": {2: "{}es"},
"be": {0: "am", 1: "are", 2: "is", ..., 5: "are"},
...
}
present = ... # preload with regular forms
if stem in irregular_forms:
for numerus_person, template in irregular_forms[stem].items():
present[numerus_person] = template.format(stem)
Use of format() instead of concatenation with '+' allows you to build forms
that don't start with the stem.
> This dosen't seem to me the best readable Python code. Is there any python
> language feature more suitable for this problem?
I don't think readability is the issue with your code; rather the problem is
to cover all the irregularities of a natural language.
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