Midterm Exam 2 Review Fall 2003: Gendered random sentences
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this is just like the lecture slide, you just have to add male or female
| And a little more than that. Like an IF. Or two. Mark Guzdial |
This doesn't work because I don't know how to input a string. But I think that's the only problem.
import random
def sentence(input):
mNouns = ["Mark", "Adam", "Larry", "Jose", "Matt", "Jim"]
fNouns = ["Angela"]
verbs = ["runs", "skips", "sings", "leaps", "jumps", "climbs", "argues", "giggles"]
phrases = ["in a tree", "over a log", "very loudly", "around the bush", "while reading the Technique"]
phrases = phrases + ["very badly", "while skipping","instead of grading", "while typing on the CoWeb."]
if input=="m":
print random.choice(mNouns), random.choice(verbs), random.choice(phrases)
if input=="f":
print random.choice(fNouns), random.choice(verbs), random.choice(phrases)
Now it works - stupid colons, I always forget.
| If we could only have smarter colons... |
Seriously, why do you have to have them? It seems redundant. The indentation should be enough of an indicator.
| The colons tell you that you need indentation next! It's a clue to the programmer that after IF or FOR or WHILE or DEF, you need a block, so it's time to indent. Mark Guzdial |
def sentence(input):
verbs = ["runs", "skips", "sings", "leaps", "jumps", "climbs", "argues", "giggles"]
phrases = ["in a tree", "over a log", "very loudly", "around the bush", "while reading the Technique"]
phrases = phrases + ["very badly", "while skipping","instead of grading", "while typing on the CoWeb."]
if input =="M":
nouns = ["Matt", "Bill", "Michael", "Lee"]
if input =="F":
nouns = ["Karen", "Danielle", "Jenni"]
print random.choice(nouns), random.choice(verbs), random.choice(phrases)
Why wont this work?
Are you asking why it doesn't work, or why it wouldn't work? Because I think it would - make sure you're inputting a string, like so: sentence("M") and not just the letter M. And make sure you import random.
Mr. Guzdial, I really liked this question ;)
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