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    Many thanks to PyCon Slovakia 2016 for the invitation and to Divio
for the opportunity to attend.
References


textarc - visualisation of texts. I can't get this to run under OS X any more as the Java version is so old, but it's OK in IE7 (other browsers may not work) in Windows in a virtual machine.
Ulises Carrión

Hamlet for two voices
First Spanish lesson
both on the LP The poet's tongue
Hamlet for two voices, interpreted in Python


Oulipo - Ouvroir de littérature potentielle ("Workshop of potential literature") group of mathematicians, writers, artists

website (French)
Wikipedia (English)
Wikipedia (Čeština)


The snake that eats its own tail: Ouroboros (English) and Uroboros (Slovenčina)
Douglas Hofstadter English, Čeština

Gödel, Escher, Bach English, Čeština


Axelrod, the iterated prisoner's dilemma

Axelrod Python library
Robert Axelrod


About me


Daniele Procida
Community & doumentation manager at Divio
developer of django CMS
core developer of Django Project, Django Software Foundation Board member
EvilDMP on IRC (#django, #django-cms etc on freenode), GitHub, Twitter etc


## hamlet.py
# coding=UTF8
# Hamlet, for two voices
# after Ulises Carrión
#
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulises_Carrión
#
# Ulises Carrión's recording of Hamlet, for two voices:
# https://www.dropbox.com/s/vyi3psnt0da2hu0/Hamlet%20for%20two%20voices.mp3?dl=0

# Uses the OS X "say" command.


import subprocess
import re

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

text_source = "http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html"

print("Getting %s" % text_source)

response = requests.get(text_source)

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

try:
    for ind, tag in enumerate(soup.find_all('a', {'name': re.compile('speech.*')})):
        # get first item with stripped tags
        name = next(tag.stripped_strings)

        # You will need to download the appropriate voices. The British English
        # Daniel and Kate do quite well.
        #
        # You might think that Mexican Spanish voices Juan and Angelica would be
        # better still, but they're not as good.

        if ind % 2 == 0:
            print(name)
            subprocess.call(['say', '-v', 'daniel', '-r', '200', name])
        else:
            print(name)
            subprocess.call(['say', '-v', 'kate', '-r', '200', name])

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    exit('aborted')
	# coding=UTF8
	# Hamlet, for two voices
	# after Ulises Carrión
	#
	# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulises_Carrión
	#
	# Ulises Carrión's recording of Hamlet, for two voices:
	# https://www.dropbox.com/s/vyi3psnt0da2hu0/Hamlet%20for%20two%20voices.mp3?dl=0

	# Uses the OS X "say" command.


	import subprocess
	import re

	import requests
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

	text_source = "http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html"

	print("Getting %s" % text_source)

	response = requests.get(text_source)

	soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

	try:
	for ind, tag in enumerate(soup.find_all('a', {'name': re.compile('speech.*')})):
	# get first item with stripped tags
	name = next(tag.stripped_strings)

	# You will need to download the appropriate voices. The British English
	# Daniel and Kate do quite well.
	#
	# You might think that Mexican Spanish voices Juan and Angelica would be
	# better still, but they're not as good.

	if ind % 2 == 0:
	print(name)
	subprocess.call(['say', '-v', 'daniel', '-r', '200', name])
	else:
	print(name)
	subprocess.call(['say', '-v', 'kate', '-r', '200', name])

	except KeyboardInterrupt:
	exit('aborted')