[Tutor] fortune-like utility

[Cranky Frankie]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Martin A. Brown <martin at linux-ip.net> wrote:
>
> Good morning and welcome to the list,
>
>  : Just planning it out in my head so far, like pseudocode. I hope
>  : to get started soon. I'm just looking to have a little dialog box
>  : come up, display a random quote of the day, and then hit enter
>  : and it's gone. Should be a nice, simple way to get started with
>  : Python.
>
> N.B. Most of the questions and answers here are about the python 2.x
> series, so just note that there are some minor differences with
> python 3.x.
>
> I would suggest starting with the data/format.

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Thanks Martin for the excellent suggestions.

I read in the book that you have to use escape like /n when you want
to span lines. I don't want to have to do that to each of my quotes,
many of which span several lines, so I will look into your
suggestions.

Thanks again.

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