Class - Mon, Dec 6, 2021 - Daisy

When quined, Yields a Tortoise's Love-song

Today for my python class I am taking on Coursera we were covering functions, and well… I got a little sidetracked and decided to make a program I was thinking about this morning while reading GEB.

unfortunatly I am not well versed enough in BlooP, FlooP or GlooP to write it in those langages, but I think Python will do just fine for my purposes.

if you haven’t read GEB, this won’t make a lot of sense

test_phrase = "compiles"
yn = "\nYes or No:"

def check_for_punc(ip):
    if ip[-1] == ".":
        print(ip)
        ip = ip[:-1]
        ip = check_for_punc(ip)
        return ip
    elif ip[-1] == ",":
        print(ip)
        ip = ip[:-1]
        ip = check_for_punc(ip)
        return ip
    elif ip[0] == " " or ip[0] == '"' or ip[0] == "'":
        print(ip)
        ip = ip.strip()
        ip = ip.strip('"')
        ip = ip.strip("'")
        ip = check_for_punc(ip)
        return ip
    elif "_" in ip or "  " in ip:
        print(ip)
        ip = ip.replace("  ", " ")
        ip = ip.replace("_", " ")
        ip = check_for_punc(ip)
        return ip
    else:
        return ip

def check_for_space(tts):
    ip = input(tts)
    ip = ip.strip()
    return ip

def repeat_manytimes(sentence, number):
    x = sentence
    for n in range(number):
        print(x)

def print_rules():
    print("Here is how you make a Quine Sentence:")
    print(" First you pick a sentence that references something at the beginning")
    print(" Example: 'this is not a sentence'")
    print(" Now you need to take the beginning reference off your sentence.")
    print(" In our example, that would be 'THIS'")
    print(" Thus our sentence becomes '____ is not a sentence'")
    print(" Input that sentence into my program and see how it references itself! \n")
    quined_phrase()

def quined_phrase():
    s = check_for_punc(input("Enter your sentence:"))
    try:
        n = int(input("Enter number of times you would it to print:\n"))
    except:
        n = input("Enter numric value. Exp: 2:\n")
        if n != int or n != float:
            n = 1
    q = f'"{s.upper()}" {s.title()}.'
    repeat_manytimes(q, n)
    print("\n")
    r = check_for_space("Make another?")
    if r[0].upper() == "Y":
        quined_phrase()
    else:
        print("okay! thanks for playing")

def like_to_play():
    r = check_for_space("Would you like to make a Quine Sentence?"+yn)
    if r[0].upper() == "Y":
        sr = check_for_space("Have you done this before?")
        if sr[0].upper() == "Y":
            quined_phrase()
        else:
            print_rules()
    else:
        sr = check_for_space("Are you sure?"+yn)
        if sr[0].upper() == "Y":
            print("Maybe next time.")
        else:
            print("AWESOME! So you do want to play!")
            sr = check_for_space("have you done this before?")
            if sr[0].upper() == "Y" or sr.lower() == "i have":
                quined_phrase()
            else:
                print_rules()

like_to_play()

if you don’t have an IDE, i’m sure you could find one online. only thing to look out for is that it has to be python3 since I am using an fstring in my code, amongst other inconsistencies with python2

End Note:

this took a long time to program, mostly because I was unfamilar with string slicing, but I’ll get there.

This was a lot of fun to program. I didn’t get a lot else done today because I was busy making this user friendly, and for the most part it is. did there need to be that many functions for things that only got used once? NO, but thats the whole point of school. you do pointless things.

… see you around, Space Cowboy.

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