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ratio of dots to dashes in Gulliver's Travels in International Morse Code - https://twitter.com/wacnt/status/566748866477694976
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| gulliver = open(r'c:\users\christian\downloads\gulliver.txt',encoding='utf-8').read() | |
| letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890' | |
| morse = '.- -... -.-. -.. . ..-. --. .... .. .--- -.- .-.. -- -. --- .--. --.- .-. ... - ..- ...- .-- -..- -.-- --.. .---- ..--- ...-- ....- ..... -.... --... ---.. ----. -----'.split(' ') | |
| dashes = {letter:code.count('-') for letter,code in zip(letters,morse)} | |
| dots = {letter:code.count('.') for letter,code in zip(letters,morse)} | |
| ndashes = sum(dashes.get(l,0) for l in gulliver.lower()) | |
| ndots = sum(dots.get(l,0) for l in gulliver.lower()) | |
| print(ndots/float(ndashes)) | |
| print(ndots,ndashes) |
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