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aparrish / add_param_to_url.py

Created March 21, 2013 18:29

add a parameter to the query string of a URL. is this really the easiest way to do this (without resorting to a non-standard library)?

	import urlparse
	import urllib

	def add_param_to_url(url, param, val):
	parsed = urlparse.urlsplit(url)._asdict()
	query = urlparse.parse_qs(parsed['query'])
	query[param] = [val]
	parsed['query'] = urllib.urlencode(query, True)
	return urlparse.urlunsplit(urlparse.SplitResult(**parsed))

aparrish / wrong_concordance.py

Last active December 15, 2015 12:09

making a "concordance" module—the wrong way to do it

	concordance = dict()

	def tokenize(line):
	return line.split(" ")

	def feed(line):
	words = tokenize(line)
	for word in words:
	if word not in concordance:
	concordance[word] = 0

aparrish / wrong_concordance2.py

Created March 27, 2013 22:13

making a "concordance" module—slightly better

	def tokenize(line):
	return line.split(" ")

	def feed(concordance, line):
	words = tokenize(line)
	for word in words:
	if word not in concordance:
	concordance[word] = 0
	concordance[word] += 1

aparrish / portnameteau.py

Created April 18, 2013 22:31

simple algorithm for mashing together two english words

	import re
	import random

	def vtoc_idx(s):
	match_obj = re.search(r'[aeiou][^aeiou]', s.lower())
	if match_obj:
	return match_obj.start() + 1
	else:
	return None

aparrish / word_of_the_troll.txt

Created December 7, 2013 14:27

Imaginary headlines intended to troll those individuals among us who are prone to lexical upset. This was going to be a twitter bot, but I couldn't get it to do what I wanted from a rhetorical perspective, so I generated 10k lines of output and put them here. The words are made from random urbandictionary.com entries that I mangled with portname…

	Holyoake Glossary Of English to nominate "Jacquefe" for Word of the Month
	Australian Nomenclature Institute to nominate "Automanlv" for Word of the Century
	Ogilvie Lexicon Of North American English advances "Ol33T" as Word of the Year
	Roget Glossary Of International English to nominate "San Dieydg" for Word of the Decade
	Practical English Thesaurus selects "Buffet Mop" as Word of the Week
	Royal British English Dictionary names "Doufml" Word of the Fortnight
	Central Board Of Orthography to select "Toory Quinto" as Word of the Century
	Heritage Association Of Vocabulary to advance "Hiking Irt" as Word of the Century
	United States Global English Dictionary to declare "Concert Happie" Word of the Week
	Coleridge English Lexicon to pick "Ignof Practice" as Word of the Year

aparrish / exercise.txt

Last active August 29, 2015 13:56

supplemental exercise for RWET

	(1) create a program that prints every other line of input.
	i.e., if you ran the program like so:

	$ python every_other_line.py <sea_rose.txt

	it would produce the output

	Rose, harsh rose,
	meagre flower, thin,

aparrish / two_cats.py

Created March 27, 2014 14:53

prints out two cats

	# vim:fileencoding=utf8
	print u"🐱"
	print u"\U0001F431"

aparrish / lebron_james.csv

Created May 29, 2014 02:16

LeBron James' 2013-2014 regular season game log, in CSV format.

We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: It looks like row 10 should actually have 30 columns, instead of 29 in line 9.

	Rk,G,Date,Age,Tm,,Opp,,GS,MP,FG,FGA,FG%,3P,3PA,3P%,FT,FTA,FT%,ORB,DRB,TRB,AST,STL,BLK,TOV,PF,PTS,GmSc,+/-
	1,1,2013-10-29,28-303,MIA,,CHI,W (+12),1,38:01,5,11,.455,0,1,.000,7,9,.778,0,6,6,8,1,0,2,0,17,16.9,+8
	2,2,2013-10-30,28-304,MIA,@,PHI,L (-4),1,36:38,9,17,.529,4,7,.571,3,4,.750,0,4,4,13,0,0,4,3,25,21.4,-8
	3,3,2013-11-01,28-306,MIA,@,BRK,L (-1),1,42:14,11,19,.579,1,2,.500,3,5,.600,1,6,7,6,2,1,5,2,26,19.9,-3
	4,4,2013-11-03,28-308,MIA,,WAS,W (+10),1,34:41,9,14,.643,3,5,.600,4,5,.800,0,3,3,5,1,0,6,2,25,17.0,+16
	5,5,2013-11-05,28-310,MIA,@,TOR,W (+9),1,36:01,13,20,.650,1,3,.333,8,8,1.000,2,6,8,8,0,1,1,2,35,33.9,+3
	6,6,2013-11-07,28-312,MIA,,LAC,W (+5),1,37:09,6,13,.462,1,3,.333,5,9,.556,0,5,5,6,1,0,4,4,18,10.8,-1
	7,7,2013-11-09,28-314,MIA,,BOS,L (-1),1,36:32,9,13,.692,0,0,,7,9,.778,1,7,8,10,0,0,5,1,25,23.1,+5
	8,8,2013-11-12,28-317,MIA,,MIL,W (+23),1,29:58,13,21,.619,4,7,.571,3,6,.500,0,3,3,2,0,0,3,0,33,21.6,+14
	9,9,2013-11-15,28-320,MIA,,DAL,W (+6),1,36:58,14,18,.778,1,1,1.000,10,11,.909,0,6,6,4,1,0,6,0,39,31.

aparrish / scores.txt

Created May 29, 2014 02:18

bunch of numbers, woo

17,25,26,25,35,18,25,33,39,30,13,21,22,35,28,27,26,23,21,21,24,17,25,30,24,18,38,19,33,26,26,15,30,32,32,36,25,21,34,30,29,27,18,34,30,24,31,13,37,36,42,33,31,20,61,22,19,17,23,19,21,24,43,15,25,32,38,17,13,32,17,34,38,29,37,36,27

aparrish / botdraft.txt

Created June 7, 2014 21:30

I am not going to finish this bot today. but here's the gist! haha literally gist.

	X is a cleric. Its university is Y (http://dbpedia.org/ontology/EducationalInstitution).
	X is a ship. Its ship draft (μ) is Y (http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#double).
	X is a legislature. Its region served is Y (http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Place).
	X is a dog. Its foal date is Y (http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date).
	X is a lake. Its area total (m2) is Y (http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#double).
	X is a automobile engine. Its piston stroke (μ) is Y (http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#double).
	X is a Painting. Its original title is Y (http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string).
	X is a speedway league. Its location city is Y (http://dbpedia.org/ontology/City).
	X is a governmental administrative region. Its iso code of a province is Y (http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string).
	X is a murderer. Its waist size (μ) is Y (http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#double).

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