madlibish.py

print("hello world")

# Strings
my_string = "a string is here"
# Lists
my_list = ['2',1,5,"hello"]
# Dictionaries
my_dictionary = {"name":"David",
"age":120}
print(my_dictionary)

# forloops
for item in my_list:
    print(item)

# list comprehension
new_list = ["this is: {}".format(item)
                 for item 
                 in my_list 
                 if len(str(item)) > 1
                 ]
print(new_list)

story_stuff = {"place":"garage","thing":"spanner"}


places = ["garage","bedroom","kitchen","under the sea","kfc","heaven","bottomless pit"]
things = ["leaf","carpenter","ostrich","elbow","door","large hadron collider","undergarment"]

places_things_dict = dict(zip(places, things))
print(places_things_dict)
#
"""
 {'garage': 'leaf', 
 'bedroom': 'carpenter', 'kitchen': 'ostrich',
  'under the sea': 'elbow',
   'kfc': 'door',
    'heaven': 'large hadron collider',
     'bottomless pit': 'undergarment'}
"""

thing_list = [{"place":key,
  "thing":places_things_dict[key]}
            for key 
              in places_things_dict.keys()]
#{"place":...,"thing":...}
print(thing_list)
# "path: {path} curr: {curr} prev: {prev}".format(**mydict)

for thing_dict in thing_list:
    story_template = """
    Once upon a time in a {place} far away,
    there lived a {thing}.
    """.format(**thing_dict)
    print(story_template)