#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- python-mode -*- # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- ########################################################################### ######################## Eureka latin hexameters ######################### ########################################################################### ## ## o author: Richard Everson (R.M.Everson@exeter.ac.uk) ## o created: 2016-06-16 22:21:17+00:40 ## o license: from random import choice from string import upper, capitalize, join from operator import mul drums = [ """decisive giant polite luminous common harmonious changeable imaginary exotic fluffy scientific mechanical mischievous draconian wise""".split(), """cats people perceptions societies cheesecakes insects numbers pleasures rhythms dragons faces protests corruptions enquirers machines""".split(), """craftily often never felicitously blushingly vividly tunefully steadfastly languidly ceremoniously suavely seldom frightfully now again""".split(), """wrought splashed scattered squeezed transported scrutinised charmed thwarted treasured hypnotised misremembered elevated diminished contemplated outran""".split(), """sleeping red befuddled salubrious demonic radical voluminous distant large ginger mercenary serious august angular elegant gorgeous wooden old""".split(), """elephants insomnia chairs penguins shadows cows radios cats fiddles carriages teddy-bears homes questions banks pickles""".split() ] h = " ".join([ choice(drum) for drum in drums ]).upper().capitalize() n = reduce(mul, [len(s) for s in drums]) m = int(n/10**6) print """Content-Type: text/html Nonsense verse machine

Nonsense verse machine

%s

 

This is a randomly generated nonsense sentence. It was generated by selecting words at random based on John Clark's Eureka machine for mechanically generating latin hexameters, which he completed in 1845.

There are %d (more than %d million) possible verses. Click get another one.

""" % (h, n, m)