Searching for a pasuk with all the vowels

vowel search.ipynb

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    "Lawrence Szenes-Strauss posted the following question on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1071696109619922/permalink/1558249010964627/):\n",
    "\n",
    "> Who can come up with a short passage of Tanakh that:\n",
    "> 1. Contains all 12 distinct Masoretic vowel marks (qamats, patah, hataf patah, tsere, segol, hataf segol, hiriq, holam, shuruq, qubuts, hataf qamats, sheva) and\n",
    "> 2. Does not contain a shem kodesh.\n",
    "> \n",
    "> Looking to use it in an initial reading assessment for some students. Thanks!"
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    "import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET\n",
    "import re"
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    "datadir = '../'\n",
    "vowelnames = {'qamats': u'\\u05B8', 'patah': u'\\u05B7', 'hataf patah': u'\\u05B2', 'tsere': u'\\u05B5', 'segol': u'\\u05B6', 'hataf segol': u'\\u05B1', 'hiriq': u'\\u05B4', 'holam': u'\\u05B9', 'shuruq': 'וּ', 'qubuts': u'\\u05BB', 'hataf qamats': u'\\u05B3', 'sheva': u'\\u05B0'}\n",
    "letters = 'אבגדהוזחטיכךלמםנןסעפףצץקרשת '"
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    "sfarim = ['bereshit', 'shmot', 'vayikra', 'bmidbar', 'dvarim']\n",
    "\n",
    "data = {} # so you can inspect manually if you want\n",
    "results = []\n",
    "\n",
    "for sefer in sfarim:\n",
    "    data[sefer] = {}\n",
    "    tree = ET.parse(datadir + sefer + '.xml')\n",
    "    root = tree.getroot() \n",
    "    prakim = root.findall('.//c')\n",
    "    for perek in prakim:\n",
    "        pereknum = int(perek.attrib['n'])\n",
    "        if pereknum not in data[sefer]: data[sefer][pereknum] = {}\n",
    "        psukim = perek.findall('v')\n",
    "        for pasuk in psukim:\n",
    "            pasuknum = int(pasuk.attrib['n'])\n",
    "            if pasuknum not in data[sefer][pereknum]:\n",
    "                data[sefer][pereknum][pasuknum] = {}\n",
    "            text = [w.text for w in pasuk if w.tag=='w' or w.tag=='q']\n",
    "            words = [''.join(list(filter(lambda c: c in letters, w))) for w in text]\n",
    "            vowels = re.findall(r'|'.join(vowelnames.values()), ' '.join(text)) # because shuruq is actually 2 chars\n",
    "            data[sefer][pereknum][pasuknum]['text'] = text\n",
    "            data[sefer][pereknum][pasuknum]['words'] = words\n",
    "            data[sefer][pereknum][pasuknum]['vowels'] = vowels\n",
    "\n",
    "            if all([v in vowels for v in vowelnames.values()]): results.append((sefer, pereknum, pasuknum))"
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       "[('shmot', 32, 6), ('vayikra', 22, 3)]"
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    "results"
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   "source": [
    "Turns out there are only two results in the Torah, so I'm not bothering to filter for *shem kodesh*.\n",
    "\n",
    "Manual inspection shows that **[Shmot 32:6](https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.32.6?lang=he)** is the answer.\n",
    "\n",
    "If I were to add the rest of Tanakh (just a matter of downloading data from tanach.us), it might make sense to filter for *shem kodesh* automatically."
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