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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
# Data source: https://xkcd.com/1930/ | |
import random | |
import re | |
class Or(list): | |
def __init__(self, *args): | |
super(Or, self).__init__(args) | |
def generate(x): | |
if type(x) is str: | |
return x | |
if type(x) is Or: | |
return generate(random.choice(x)) | |
else: | |
return str.join(' ', map(generate, x)) | |
result = generate([ | |
'Did you know that', | |
Or( | |
['the', Or('Fall', 'Spring'), 'equinox'], | |
['the', Or('Winter', 'Summer'), Or('solstice', 'Olympics')], | |
['the', Or('earliest', 'latest'), Or('sunrise', 'sunset')], | |
['daylight', Or('saving', 'savings'), 'time'], | |
['leap', Or('year', 'day')], | |
'easter', | |
['the', Or('harvest', 'super', 'blood'), 'moon'], | |
'Toyota Truck Month', | |
'Shark Week' | |
), | |
Or( | |
['happens', Or('earlier', 'later', 'at the wrong time'), 'every year'], | |
[ | |
'drifts out of sync with the', | |
Or( | |
'Sun', | |
'Moon', | |
'Zodiac', | |
[Or('Gregorian', 'Mayan', 'Lunar', 'iPhone'), 'calendar'], | |
'atomic clock in Colorado' | |
) | |
], | |
['might', Or('not happen', 'happen twice'), 'this year'] | |
), | |
'because of', | |
Or( | |
['time zone legislation in', Or('Indiana', 'Arizona', 'Russia')], | |
'a decree by the pope in the 1500s', | |
[ | |
Or( | |
'precession', | |
'libration', | |
'nutation', | |
'libation', | |
'eccentricity', | |
'obliquity'), | |
'of the', | |
Or( | |
'Moon', | |
'Sun', | |
'Earth\'s axis', | |
'equator', | |
'prime meridian', | |
[Or('international date', 'mason-dixon'), 'line'], | |
) | |
], | |
'magnetic field reversal', | |
['an arbitrary decision by ', Or('Benjamin Franklin', 'Isaac Newton', 'FDR')] | |
), | |
'? Apparently,', | |
Or( | |
'it causes a predictable increase in car accidents', | |
'that\'s why we have leap seconds', | |
'that\'s why we have leap seconds', | |
[ | |
'it was even more extreme during the', | |
Or('Bronze Age', 'Ice Age', 'Cretaceous', '1990s') | |
], | |
[ | |
'there\'s a proposal to fix it, but it', | |
Or( | |
'will never happen', | |
'actually makes things worse', | |
'is stalled in congress', | |
'might be unconstitutional' | |
) | |
], | |
'it\'s getting worse and no one knows why' | |
), | |
'.', | |
'While it may seem like trivia, it', | |
Or( | |
'causes huge headaches for software developers', | |
'is taken advantage of by high-speed traders', | |
'triggered the 2003 Northeast Blackout', | |
'has to be corrected for by GPS satellites', | |
'is now recognized as a major cause of World War I' | |
), | |
'.' | |
]) | |
print(re.sub(r' ([.?])', r'\1', result)) |
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