> -------Original Message-------
> From: Tiger12506 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Yuck. Talk about a one shot function! Of course it only reads through the
> file once! You only call the function once. Put a second print randline(f)
> at the bottom of your script and see what happens :-)
>
> JS
>
*sigh*
#!/bin/env python
import os
import random
text = 'shaks12.txt'
if not os.path.exists(text):
os.system('wget http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/shaks12.txt')
def randline(f):
for i,j in enumerate(file(f, 'rb')):
if random.randint(0,i) == i:
line = j
return line
print randline(text)
print randline(text)
print randline(text)
--
Yorick
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