A little amusing Python program

Manoj Plakal plakal-nospam at nospam-cs.wisc.edu
Thu Oct 4 00:44:42 EDT 2001


Cool! I can think of at least one "useful" 
application: automating cheating for
Who Wants to be a Millionaire. As it is,
when people phone their friend, you
can sometimes hear some frenzied typing
over the line ...

Manoj


Max M wrote:
> I have written this little Python program that usually raises a few
> eyebrows. It answer multiple choice questions.
> 
> It is very simple. ie.
> 
> question = 'What is Python'
> choices = (
>                'a programming language',
>                'a tv series',
>                'a snake'
>                )
> It then queries google with:
> 
> "What is Python a programming language"
> "What is Python a tv series"
> "What is Python a snake"
> 
> and chooses the result that gets the most hits.
> 
> Simple, but far better then random.
> 
> Well it's not of much use, but kind of fun and very low budget AI ...




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