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[jack]

i have a file of signature lines. this key definition picks a line at random from the file and sends it to whereever i'm typing.

like this:

jack
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more

[Chris]

Nice, I was wondering how you manifest all those delightfully cryptic sig lines.

One tiny thing: since count is initialized to 1 rather than 0, your count at the end will wind up being one larger than the actual number of sig lines. This will probably cause a blank sig line to appear once in a while.

[jack]

[jack]

not that anybody cares, but here is the Python i was using to do the same thing:

import random
import win32clipboard

sigfile = open('D:\\aut\\MAIL-HEADERS.TXT','r')
alllines = sigfile.readlines()
sigfile.close()
selection = random.choice(alllines).strip()

win32clipboard.OpenClipboard(0)
win32clipboard.SetClipboardText(selection)
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()


jack
an intellectual carrot...the mind boggles

[Payam]

Jack, off topic but I've heard a lot about how powerful Python is though I have no exprience with it.

AHK has just been incredible -- I'm wondering if/when you might have a use for Python instead of AHK...any benefits? any time when you have to use Python instead?

Thanks
Payam

[jack]

if you have to do a lot of text processing, python is much more powerful and very simple. it's very good at string formatting, lists, dictionaries.

it is good when you you need stuff that autohotkey can't do. for example:

i recently wrote a python program that sends SMTP mail messages with random content to random mail addresses, with random recipients, with random sent dates and random attachments. it sounds rather strange, but it was (and is) very useful for some software testing.

some time ago i wrote a program that does database access, getting results to match a user's query.

i don't suppose that helps much. anybody else use python?



jack
they have taken their eyes off the ball and are not seeing the wider issues

[savage]

I dabbled in perl for a while, then I dabbled in python. I'm still playing, but I find it to be very enjoyable to use. It's simple and powerful. I'll probably end up using it a lot.