[Tutor] space between words printed
Alex Kleider
akleider at sonic.net
Sun Nov 3 17:14:40 CET 2013
On 2013-11-02 20:18, Byron Ruffin wrote:
> The output generates a sentence made up of words chosen randomly from
> lists. I am having trouble getting a space between each of the
> words. Should I be thinking about .split? Here is the code (ignore
> indent errors as it was copied and pasted) Thank you:
>
> import random
>
> def wordList():
>
> adj1 = ["Big", "Small", "Early",
> "Late", "Red", "Tall", "Short"]
> subj = ["politician", "man", "woman", "whale",
> "company", "child", "soldier"]
> obj = ["budget", "money", "box",
> "gift", "gun", "tank", "drone"]
> adj2 = ["hot", "crazy", "stupid", "fast",
> "worthless", "awesome", "dirty"]
> verb = ["spends", "shoots", "evades", "pursues",
> "subverts", "passes", "flirts"]
>
> y = adj1[generate()], subj[generate()] + obj[generate()] +
> adj2[generate()] + verb[generate()]
>
> return y
>
> def generate():
> random0_6 = random.randint(0, 6)
> return random0_6
>
> def main():
>
> print (wordList(), ".", sep="")
>
> main()
I would suggest that 'wordList' return a tuple (which it sort of does
but not quite what I have in mind:-) making eventual printing much
easier as in """ print "%s %s %s %s %s." % wordList """. (Modification
needed to make it Python3 vs 2.7, I believe.)
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