Re: [users] Re: random lines
also sprach Thomas J. Hamman (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 11:58:32AM -0400):
> What exactly is this for? You could use fortune and strfile. Make the
> text file with a % symbol between each selection, like this:
a list of albums that i have on mp3 format. and
the desire to have a script that plays albums randomly
-- not a random song off any album,
but a random album from beginning to end
the strfile method is plausible, but i'd much rather work with the
file that i have rather than autogenerate another one. and the file i
got doesn't have any %'s.
> That's what I do to get randomized quotes in my signature, so if that's
> the type of thing you have in mind, I recommend it.
that's the way i do that too.
> If you don't want to do it the fortune way, you could do it in about one
> line of Python after importing the random and linecache modules:
>
> from random import *
> from linecache import *
> print getline('~/.muttrc',randrange(1,20))
except that hardcodes the file length, does it not?
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