This may be useful to some of you who have an interest in learning Python, are new to Python, or haven't touched Python in a while.
Their list comprehension pattern reminded me of some short code I wrote to generate random words in 3 word combos:
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import random
words = [word.strip() for word in open("/usr/share/dict/words").readlines() if len(word) > 4 and word.find("'") < 0]
def randomwords(numwords):
buf = []
for i in range(0, numwords):
buf.append(words[random.randint(0,len(words)-1)])
return " ".join(buf)
randomwords(3)
# Outputs something like 'refutable mollified madame'
Obviously, this example only works on a Unix-like platform with a dictionary file installed. But you get the idea.
I always forget how powerful list comprehensions are (and how useful). If you're writing Python, it's important to pay attention to the features outlined in Antipatterns (above); they'll save you time, they'll make the code more readable, and in some cases more performant.
