takes text from your clipboard and colors it in html using a generated colorbank

colorbank.py

# generate a color bank from a file and feed into colorbank.txt

#use a mutable set to avoid duplicates
from sets import Set
colors = Set()

#get my colors from the file
finlines = open('sourcecolors.txt','r').readlines()
#sourcecolors.txt is the page source ripped from http://www.color-hex.com/.
for line in finlines:
  index = line.find('#')
  if index != -1:
		color = line[index:index+7]
		colors.add(color)

#write em out
f = open('colorbank.txt', 'w')
f.write('\n'.join(colors))
f.close()

colortext.py

#take your clipboard's text and colorize it with the color bank
import win32clipboard as clippy
import random as randy

colorlist = []


def main():
	#gotta do this for clip board stuff
	clippy.OpenClipboard()
	cliptext = clippy.GetClipboardData()

	#wonderful color list that we work with
	initializeColorlist()

	#we gonna just make a new string and everything to it
	outtext = ''
	for char in cliptext:
			if char is not " ":
				outtext += "<span style= ""color:" + pickacolor() + " "">"
				outtext += char
				outtext += "</span>"
			else:
				outtext += "<span> </span>"
	clippy.EmptyClipboard()
	clippy.SetClipboardText(outtext)
	clippy.CloseClipboard()

def initializeColorlist():
	finlines = open('colorbank.txt','r').readlines()
	for line in finlines:
		colorlist.append(line)

def pickacolor():
	return str(randy.sample(colorlist,1))[2:9]

if __name__ == "__main__":
	main()