In this section, we are going to make a very interesting beginner-level project of Python. It is a random story generator. The random story generator project aims to generate random stories every time user executes the code. A story is made up of a collection of sentences. We will choose random phrases to build sentences, and hence stories.
Now, the pertinent question is – How we will do so? Its answer is very simple :
- We will first put the elements of the story in different lists.
- Then we will use the random module to select random parts of the story collected in different lists.
- And then concatenate them to make a story.
We will make use of random.choice() function. Before starting, let’s see an example of how random.choice() works.
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import random # list of books is stored in the list -'books' books = ['Mother', 'Midnight Children', 'My experiments with truth'] # An item from the list 'books' is selected # by random.choice() print(random.choice(books)) |
Midnight Children
As we can see, random.choice() function basically selects an item from a list of items.
Following are the steps involved in this Random story generator project.
1. Import the random module, as it is a built-in module of python. So, there’s no need to install it manually.
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# Importing random module import random |
2. Define several lists of phrases. Here, we have defined eight lists. We can define more also, it depends totally on our choice.
- Sentence_starter – This list gives an idea about the time of the event.
- character – This list tells about the main character of this story.
- time – This list defines the exact day on which some incident has occurred.
- story_plot – This list defines the plot of the story.
- place – This list defines the place at which the incident occurred.
- second_character – This list defines the second character of the story.
- age – This list defines the age of the second character.
- work – This list tells about the work the second character was doing.
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# Defining list of phrases which will help to build a story Sentence_starter = ['About 100 years ago', ' In the 20 BC', 'Once upon a time'] character = [' there lived a king.',' there was a man named Jack.', ' there lived a farmer.'] time = [' One day', ' One full-moon night'] story_plot = [' he was passing by', ' he was going for a picnic to '] place = [' the mountains', ' the garden'] second_character = [' he saw a man', ' he saw a young lady'] age = [' who seemed to be in late 20s', ' who seemed very old and feeble'] work = [' searching something.', ' digging a well on roadside.'] |
3. With the help of random.choice() select an item from each list and concatenate the selected items to generate sentences for the story.
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# Selecting an item from each list and concatenating them. print(random.choice(Sentence_starter)+random.choice(character)+ random.choice(time)+random.choice(story_plot)+ random.choice(place)+random.choice(second_character)+ random.choice(age)+random.choice(work)) |
Implementation:
Let’s try the full implementation with the help of an example.
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# Importing random module import random # Defining list of phrases which will help to build a story Sentence_starter = ['About 100 years ago', ' In the 20 BC', 'Once upon a time'] character = [' there lived a king.',' there was a man named Jack.', ' there lived a farmer.'] time = [' One day', ' One full-moon night'] story_plot = [' he was passing by',' he was going for a picnic to '] place = [' the mountains', ' the garden'] second_character = [' he saw a man', ' he saw a young lady'] age = [' who seemed to be in late 20s', ' who seemed very old and feeble'] work = [' searching something.', ' digging a well on roadside.'] # Selecting an item from each list and concatenating them. print(random.choice(Sentence_starter)+random.choice(character)+ random.choice(time)+random.choice(story_plot) + random.choice(place)+random.choice(second_character)+ random.choice(age)+random.choice(work)) |
Output:
In the 20 BC there lived a king. One day he was going for a picnic to the mountains he saw a man who seemed to be in late 20s digging a well on roadside.
In this way, we can compile and run this code as many times as we want. And different short stories will be generated.
