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# Name:        CreateShakespeare.py
# Purpose:     Simulate lots of monkeys banging on typewriters. Find out how long
#               it takes to create shakespeare. To make it easy we just want our
#               monkeys to write the line
#               "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio"
#               And we'll ignore the punctuation and case to make it easier for
#               our tireless computer monkeys.
#
# Author:      jbloom
#
# Created:     07/11/2006
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import random
import string
import time
 
correctText = 'Alas poor Yorick I knew him Horatio'
charList = string.ascii_uppercase + ' '
startTime = time.localtime()
endTime = None
currentLoopCounter = 0
 
def getRandomCharacter():
    return charList[random.randrange(0,27)]
 
def createRandomLine():
   '''Creates the Random Line by monkey power'''
   randomLine = []
   for char in xrange(len(correctText)):
   randomLine.append(getRandomCharacter())
   return ''.join(randomLine)
 
def testLine(inputLine):
    '''Tests the passed line to see if we got the correct text '''
    if inputLine == correctText.upper():
        return True
    else:
        return False
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    #print testLine('ALAS POOR YORICK I KNEW HIM HORATIO')
    while True:
       currentLoopCounter += 1
       line = createRandomLine()
       if testLine(line) == True:
           endTime = time.localtime()
           print ('')
           print ('Started: %s' % startTime)
           print ('Ended  : %s' % endTime)
           print ('Total Iterations: %s' % currentLoopCounter)
           print ('MONKEY  LINE: %s' % line)
           print ('DESIRED LINE: %s' % correctText)
           break
      else:
           print line, currentLoopCounter