Jay: > How would I be able to grab random words from an internet source. I'd > like to grab a random word from a comprehensive internet dictionary. > What would be the best source and the best way to go about this?
Why do you need to grab them from the net? A simpler solution seems to keep a local file containing the sequence of words. You can find some open source sequences of such words. Then you can read all the words in a list, and use random.choice to take one of them randomly. If you don't want to keep all the dictionary/lexer (that can be up to 20 MB if it's a lexer) in memory you can (knowing the len of the file) seek a random position, and read 20-30 bytes, and take the word inside it (or you can create a dictionary file where each word is contained in in a fixed len of chars, so you can seek exactly a single word). Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
