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Here are the files *we verb*, my 2014 nanogenmo entry. It is, in essence, a novelisation of Canadian poet John Riddell's poem *we*. A PDF of the completed novel can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g41lcmikexssnte/we-verb.pdf?dl=0
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# -*- codeing: utf-8 -*- | |
from urllib2 import urlopen | |
from json import load | |
from random import randint | |
import codecs | |
import sys | |
UTF8Writer = codecs.getwriter('utf8') | |
sys.stdout = UTF8Writer(sys.stdout) | |
datadump = '' | |
words = [] | |
nextstart = '' | |
text = r"""\documentclass{book} | |
\usepackage[a5paper]{geometry} | |
\title{we verb} | |
\author{Matt Schneider} | |
\begin{document} | |
\begin{center} | |
\pagenumbering{gobble} | |
\textsc{\Huge we verb}\\[.25cm] | |
\rule{3cm}{.1pt} | |
\\[1cm] | |
\textsc{\Large A Novelisation}\\[5cm] | |
\textsc{\Large Matt Schneider}\\[5cm] | |
\textsc{\small First Edition} | |
\end{center} | |
\cleardoublepage | |
\begin{flushright} | |
\textsc{\Huge we verb} | |
\cleardoublepage | |
for john riddell | |
\end{flushright} | |
\cleardoublepage | |
\pagenumbering{arabic} | |
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}""" | |
for i in range(0,601): | |
test = urlopen('http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:English_verbs&cmtype=page&format=json&cmlimit=50&cmcontinue=' + nextstart) | |
datadump = load(test) | |
for each in range(0, len(datadump['query']['categorymembers'])): words.append(datadump['query']['categorymembers'][each]) | |
nextstart = datadump['query-continue']['categorymembers']['cmcontinue'] | |
for each in words: | |
if each['ns'] == 0: text += 'we ' + each['title']text + ' ' | |
if randint(0,500) == 0: text += '\n' | |
text += '\end{document}' | |
print(text)#.encode('ascii','ignore')) |
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