Markov chaining ... super simple....

found it online... then generated a bit of Bernstein
http://bdp.glia.ca/markov-bern/

code/student/ongoing/markov-master/markov.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys
+import random
+from random import choice
+
+
+
+DATA_DIR  =  "../../../../data/poetryFoundation/"
+
+
+def make_chains(corpus):
+    """Takes an input text as a string and returns a dictionary of
+    markov chains."""
+
+    chain = {}
+    words = corpus.split()
+
+    for i in range(len(words)-2):
+        pair = (words[i], words[i+1])
+        if (pair in chain):
+            chain[pair] += [ words[i+2] ]
+        else:
+            chain[pair] = [ words[i+2] ]
+    #print chain    
+    return chain
+
+def make_text(chains):
+    """Takes a dictionary of markov chains and returns random text
+    based off an original text."""
+
+    # To start, we want a word that starts with a capital letter
+    # start = 'z'
+    # while (start[0][0] != start[0][0].upper()):
+    #     
+    start = random.choice(chains.keys())
+
+    line = list(start)
+
+    last = line[-1][-1]
+    linLen = 60#random.randint(2,5)
+    while (len(line) < linLen):
+        #linLen = random.randint(12,40)
+        # while (not line[-1][-1] in ['.','?']):
+    	next = chains[tuple(line[-2:])]
+    	line += [ choice(next) ]
+#    	print "line: %r" % line
+
+    #print "line: %r" % line
+    cnt=0
+    lineated=""
+    for w in line:
+        cnt=cnt+1
+        lineated+=w+" "
+        if cnt>3:
+            cnt=0
+            lineated+="\n"
+
+
+    return lineated
+    return " ".join(line)
+
+def main():
+    args = sys.argv
+    #filename = args[1]
+    filename = "bernstein_rough-trades+dark-city.txt"#bernstein_rough-trades.txt"#DATA_DIR+"ALL/ALL_poetryFoundation_POEMS.txt"#'lyrics.txt'
+
+    # Change this to read input_text from a file
+    f = open(filename, "r")
+    chain_dict = make_chains(f.read())
+
+    for i in range(20):
+        for i in range(320):
+            print make_text(chain_dict)
+        print ""
+
+    # allWORDS=""
+    # allWORDS = make_text(chain_dict)
+    # print allWORDS
+
+    #print make_text(chain_dict)
+
+    # break it down into lines
+    # linLen=4
+    # ln=0
+    # for w in allWORDS:
+    #     ln=ln+1
+    #     if ln<linLen:
+    #         print w
+    #     else:
+    #         print "\n"
+
+
+#    random_text = make_text(chain_dict)
+#    print random_text
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()