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title: The Buridan's donkey in python
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date: 2016-04-02
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author: pesceWanda
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layout: post
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categories:
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- PesceWanda
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tags:
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- Buridan donkey
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- python
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- random
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- mersenne twister
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During the final weeks of my exam session I started reading a bit about python 3 using an excellent book: [Dive into Python](http://www.diveintopython.net/).
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When I noted that python uses the [Mersenne Twister PRNG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister) as well I decided to write another version of my [Buridan's donkey program](http://francescomecca.eu/index.php/archives/207).
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{% highlight python %}
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import random, sys
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if __name__ == '__main__':
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args = list()
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if not sys.stdin.isatty():
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for line in sys.stdin:
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if line[-1] is '\n':
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line = line[:-1]
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args.append(line)
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else:
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args = sys.argv[1:]
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argRange = len(args)
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for i in range(argRange):
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print(str(i+1) + '.', args.pop(random.randrange(0, len(args))))
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{% endhighlight %}
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This script works in a different way than the one in c++.
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Rather than shuffling a list made by the entries in the arguments, it pops randomly one entry from the list till the list is empty.
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Not satisfied enough, I wrote also a telegram bot using the [telebot library](https://github.com/eternnoir/pyTelegramBotAPI) that works as the script above but inside the telegram app.
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The bot can be added to your contact list by simply searching for [@duridan\_donkey\_bot](http://telegram.me/duridan_donkey_bot) (yes, a typo!)
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All the code is opensource and can be found on my github page.
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Francesco Mecca
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