curse.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3 -t
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# Shakespearian Curse Generator -- Based on lists compiled by Jerry Maguire, #
#     English teacher at Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana.     #
# Public domain implementations by Trevor Stone http://trevorstone.org/curse #
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from __future__ import print_function
import sys
import random

class WordList:
    """Provides random words from a list via string conversion."""
    def __init__(self, items):
        self.items = items

    def __str__(self):
        return random.choice(self.items)

# one-word adjectives
adjective1 = WordList(("artless", "bawdy", "beslubbering", "bootless", "brazen",
    "churlish", "cockered", "clouted", "craven", "currish", "dankish",
    "dissembling", "distempered", "droning", "errant", "fawning", "fitful",
    "fobbing", "froward", "frothy", "gleeking", "gnarling", "goatish",
    "gorbellied", "greasy", "grizzled", "haughty", "hideous", "impertinent",
    "infectious", "jaded", "jarring", "knavish", "lewd", "loggerheaded",
    "lumpish", "mammering", "mangled", "mewling", "paunchy", "peevish",
    "pernicious", "prating", "pribbling", "puking", "puny", "purpled",
    "quailing", "queasy", "rank", "reeky", "roguish", "roynish", "ruttish",
    "saucy", "sottish", "spleeny", "spongy", "surly", "tottering", "unmuzzled",
    "vacant", "vain", "venomed", "villainous", "waggish", "wanton", "warped",
    "wayward", "weedy", "wenching", "whoreson", "yeasty"))

# hyphenated adjectives
adjective2 = WordList(("base-court", "bat-fowling", "beef-witted",
    "beetle-headed", "boil-brained", "bunched-backed", "clapper-clawed",
    "clay-brained", "common-kissing", "crook-pated", "dismal-dreaming",
    "dizzy-eyed", "dog-hearted", "dread-bolted", "earth-vexing", "elf-skinned",
    "empty-hearted", "evil-eyed", "eye-offending", "fat-kidneyed", "fen-sucked",
    "flap-mouthed", "fly-bitten", "folly-fallen", "fool-born", "full-gorged",
    "guts-griping", "half-faced", "hasty-witted", "heavy-handed", "hedge-born",
    "hell-hated", "horn-mad", "idle-headed", "ill-breeding", "ill-composed",
    "ill-nurtured", "iron-witted", "knotty-pated", "lean-witted",
    "lily-livered", "mad-bread", "milk-livered", "motley-minded",
    "muddy-mettled", "onion-eyed", "pale-hearted", "paper-faced",
    "pinch-spotted", "plume-plucked", "pottle-deep", "pox-marked", "raw-boned",
    "reeling-ripe", "rough-hewn", "rude-growing", "rug-headed", "rump-fed",
    "shag-eared", "shard-borne", "sheep-biting", "shrill-gorged", "spur-galled",
    "sour-faced", "swag-bellied", "tardy-gaited", "tickle-brained",
    "toad-spotted", "unchin-snouted", "weak-hinged", "weather-bitten",
    "white-livered"))

# nouns
noun = WordList(("apple-john", "baggage", "barnacle", "bladder", "boar-pig",
    "bugbear", "bum-bailey", "canker-blossom", "clack-dish", "clotpole",
    "coxcomb", "codpiece", "crutch", "cutpurse", "death-token", "dewberry",
    "dogfish", "egg-shell", "flap-dragon", "flax-wench", "flirt-gill",
    "foot-licker", "fustilarian", "giglet", "gudgeon", "gull-catcher",
    "haggard", "harpy", "hedge-pig", "hempseed", "horn-beast", "hugger-mugger",
    "jack-a-nape", "jolthead", "lewdster", "lout", "maggot-pie", "malignancy",
    "malkin", "malt-worm", "mammet", "manikin", "measle", "minimus", "minnow",
    "miscreant", "moldwarp", "mumble-news", "nut-hook", "pantaloon",
    "pigeon-egg", "pignut", "puttock", "pumpion", "rabbit-sucker", "rampallion",
    "ratsbane", "remnant", "rudesby", "ruffian", "scantling", "scullion",
    "scut", "skainsmate", "snipe", "strumpet", "varlot", "vassal", "waterfly",
    "whey-face", "whipster", "wagtail", "younker"))

lists = (adjective1, adjective2, noun)
def curse(n=1, file=sys.stdout):
    """Print n curses to file-like object."""
    for i in range(n):
        print('Thou ', ' '.join([str(w) for w in lists]), '!', sep='', file=file)

# When running as script, get number and do curses
if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) == 1:  # one arg is script name, interactive mode
        n = int(input('Number of curses: '))
        curse(n)
    else:
        curse(int(sys.argv[1]))