Python

Python and Text Processing

February 20, 2014 by michellechandra in Python

For my first Python program that mashes up text, I chose to work with corporate mottos. I first manually copied over 400 corporate mottos from this pdf file into a text file. I then used Adam’s Cowboy.py program, which replaces common words (you, I, the, etc) with cowboy slang. However, I chose to replace those words with California slang (dude, hella, totally, whatever, etc).

Here is the text replacement program:


import sys
for line in sys.stdin:
	line = line.strip()
	line = line.replace("the ", "hella ")
	line = line.replace("and ", "like yeah, ")
	line = line.replace(" a ", " like whatever ")
	line = line.replace("!", ". Dude.")
	line = line.replace(",", " totally ")
	print line

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import sys

for line in sys.stdin:

line = line.strip()

line = line.replace("the ", "hella ")

line = line.replace("and ", "like yeah, ")

line = line.replace(" a ", " like whatever ")

line = line.replace("!", ". Dude.")

line = line.replace(",", " totally ")

print line

And a few examples of the result with this initial translation:

Ace is hella place for hella helpful hardware man.
Snap. Dude. Crackle. Dude. Pop. Dude.
Billions like yeah totally billions served. Dude.
All hella news that’s fit to print. Dude.

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