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████ #41

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leonardr opened this issue Nov 28, 2022 · 0 comments
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████ #41

leonardr opened this issue Nov 28, 2022 · 0 comments
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████ uses two science fiction novels as an interference pattern to make a blackout text out of a third. More details are in my blog post.

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███████ not-quite-spacesuits █████████████████████████████████████. ███████, ██████████████████ baked-on ████████████████. ████████████████████, ██████████████████████ punched-metal decorations █████████. ████████████ shucked ███, █████████, ████████████████████ skinny-dipping, ████████████████████████████████████████████. ███████████████████████████ sloppiness ███████████████.

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import random
import re
import sys

class Book(object):

    def __init__(self, filename):
        self.word_bag = set()
        self.words = []
        text = open(filename).read()
        self.parse(text)
        self.patterns = []
        
    def parse(self, text):
        for paragraph in re.compile("\n\n").split(text):        
            for word in re.compile("[—\s]+").split(paragraph):
                word = word.strip()
                normalized = self.normalize_word(word)
                if not normalized:
                    continue
                self.word_bag.add(normalized)
                self.words.append(word)
            self.words.append("\n\n")
        
    def normalize_word(self,w):
        w = w.lower().replace("’", "'")
        return re.compile("[^A-Za-z]").sub("", w)

    def blackout_word(self,w):
        return re.compile("[A-Za-z0-9]").sub("█", w)
    
    def blackout(self):
        data = ""
        para = []
        for word in self.words:
            n = self.normalize_word(word)
            if any(n in x.word_bag for x in self.patterns):
                para.append(self.blackout_word(word))
            else:
                if word == '\n\n':
                    data += "<p>{}</p>\n\n".format(" ".join(para))
                    para = []
                else:
                    para.append(word)
        if para:
            data += "<p>{}</p>".format(" ".join(para))
        return data.replace("█ █", "██")

source = Book(sys.argv[1])
source.patterns = [Book(x) for x in sys.argv[2:]]
target = source.blackout()

print("""<html>
<body style="width: 760px; text-align: left; margin: 0 auto;">
print(target)
print("</body></html>")
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