The closest I have an answer to your questions about Python and poetry (aside from the Scandroid) is a book called *Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry* which Wesleyan published something close to ten years ago; I don't think it's out of print yet, but I don't keep good track. It was out of a casual remark there (about a very primitive program not even directly talked about in the boolk) that there came a casual remark from a reader last year which led to the Scandroid.
Charles Hartman
"The time has come for someone to put his foot down; and that foot is me." --Animal House
On Mar 20, 2005, at 2:10 AM, Tim Churches wrote:
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
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