Of course this last suggestion clearly has the wrong meter for a good limerick. Not everyone knows the ingredients of a good limerick, which led to the following (which has been around in various forms since God was a lad):Charles Hartman wrote:
Does anyone know of a cross-platform (OSX and Windows at least) library for text-to-speech? I know there's an OSX API, and probably also for Windows. I know PyTTS exists, but it seems to talk only to the Windows engine. I'd like to write a single Python module to handle this on both platforms, but I guess I'm asking too much -- it's too hardware dependent, I suppose. Any hints?
Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar
No, but I do wonder how many other users of Python are poets-in-residence, or indeed, published poets?
And congratulations on the release of Scandroid Version 1.0a (written in Python) on 18.iii.05 (as you elegantly record it).
All this begs the question: Have any poems been written in Python (similar to the well-known Perl Poetry (see http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Perl/Poetry/ )?
Indeed, have any poems ever been written about Python - other than "The Zen of Python" by Tim Peters? A limerick, even?
There once was a language called Python...
(which is pretty close to having three anapaestic left feet)
or more promisingly, rhyme-wise, but metrically rather worse :
There once was a mathematician named van Rossum...
Tim C
There was a young man from Japan
Who never quite learned how to scan.
He got on quite fine
Until the last line
And then somehow he could never quite get the number of syllables right,or make it rhyme.
So, let's accept that the first line should scan correctly, that would make the following first lines acceptable:
A mathematician named Guido ... The inventor of Python, called Guido ... A mathematician (van Rossum) ... Van Rossum, inventor of Python ...
Hopefully that will begin to get the idea across.
Since it's PyCon week, I will offer a prize of $100 to the best (in my opinion) limerick about Python posted to this list (with a Cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) before midday on Friday. The prize money will be my own, so there are no other rules. I will post my judgment when the PyCon nonsense has died down a little, but the winner will be read before the entire PyCon audience. Get to it!
regards Steve -- Meet the Python developers and your c.l.py favorites March 23-25 Come to PyCon DC 2005 http://www.pycon.org/ Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
