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Shreddit/shreddit/util.py

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"""This module contains common utilities for the rest of the package.
"""
import random
WORDLIST = "/usr/share/dict/words"
STATIC_TEXT = "I have been Shreddited for privacy!"
try:
from loremipsum import get_sentence
except ImportError:
def get_sentence():
"""This keeps the mess of dealing with the loremipsum library out of the shredding code. Until the maintainer of
the loremipsum package uploads a version that works with Python 3 to pypi, it is necessary to provide a drop-in
replacement. The current solution is to return a static text string unless the operating system has a word list.
If that is the case, use it instead.
"""
try:
lines = [line.strip() for line in open(WORDLIST).readlines()]
return " ".join(random.sample(lines, random.randint(50, 150)))
except IOError:
# The word list wasn't available...
return STATIC_TEXT