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def chain():
animals = ["fly", "spider", "bird", "cat", "dog", "goat", "cow", "horse"]
phrases = [" wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.",
"How absurd to swallow a bird!",
"Imagine that, to swallow a cat!",
"What a hog, to swallow a dog!",
"Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!",
"I don't know how she swallowed a cow!",
"She's dead, of course!"]
old_lady = "I know an old lady who swallowed a "
swallowed = "She swallowed the <animal> to catch the "
die = "I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die."
song = ""
verse = ""
chain = ""
for number, animal in enumerate(animals):
verse = old_lady + animal + ".\n"
if number == 7:
verse += phrases[6]
else:
if number == 0:
chain = swallowed + animal + '.\n'
elif number == 1:
verse += "It" + phrases[0] + "\n"
chain = chain.replace("<animal>", animal)
verse += chain
chain = swallowed+animal+" that"+phrases[0]+"\n"+chain
else:
verse += phrases[number-1] + "\n"
chain = chain.replace("<animal>", animal)
verse += chain
chain = swallowed + animal + ".\n" + chain
verse += die + "\n"
verse += "\n"
song += verse
return song
def verses(letter):
return letter.replace('die.', 'die.slice').split('slice')
def recite(start_verse, end_verse):
generated = [verse.strip().split("\n") for verse in verses(chain())]
if start_verse == end_verse:
return generated[start_verse-1]
else:
result = []
for i in range(start_verse-1, end_verse):
result += generated[i] + [""]
# Pop out the last empty string
result.pop()
return result
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