PLACES=['Afghanistan','Albania','Algeria','Samoa','Andorra','Angola','Anguilla','Antarctica','Antigua','Barbuda','Argentina','Armenia','Aruba','Australia','Austria','Azerbaijan','Bahamas','Bahrain','Bangladesh','Barbados','Belarus','Belgium','Belize','Benin','Bermuda','Bhutan','Bolivia','Bosnia','Herzegovina','Botswana','Bouvet','Brazil','Brunei','Darussalam','Bulgaria','Burkina','Faso','Burundi','Cambodia','Cameroon','Canada','Verde','Cayman','Chad','Chile','China','Colombia','Comoros','Congo','Costa','Rica','Croatia','Cuba','Cyprus','Czech','Denmark','Djibouti','Dominica','Ecuador','Egypt','Salvador','Guinea','Eritrea','Estonia','Ethiopia','Falklands','Faroe','Fiji','Finland','France','Guiana','Polynesia','Gabon','Gambia','Georgia','Germany','Ghana','Gibraltar','Greece','Greenland','Grenada','Guadeloupe','Guam','Guatemala','Guinea','Bissau','Guyana','Haiti','Honduras','Hungary','Iceland','India','Indonesia','Iran','Iraq','Ireland','Israel','Italy','Jamaica','Japan','Jordan','Kazakhstan','Kenya','Kiribati','Kuwait','Kyrgyzstan','Laos','Latvia','Lebanon','Lesotho','Liberia','Libya','Liechtenstein','Lithuania','Luxembourg','Macau','Macedonia','Madagascar','Malawi','Malaysia','Maldives','Mali','Malta','Martinique','Mauritania','Mauritius','Mayotte','Mexico','Moldova','Monaco','Mongolia','Montserrat','Morocco','Mozambique','Myanmar','Namibia','Nauru','Nepal','Netherlands','Caledonia','Zealand','Nicaragua','Niger','Nigeria','Niue','Korea','Mariana','Norway','Oman','Pakistan','Palau','Palestine','Panama','Papua','Paraguay','Peru','Philippines','Pitcairn','Poland','Portugal','Puerto','Rico','Qatar','Reunion','Romania','Russia','Rwanda','Samoa','Marino','Saudi','Arabia','Senegal','Seychelles','Sierra','Leone','Singapore','Slovakia','Slovenia','Somalia','Spain','Sudan','Suriname','Swaziland','Sweden','Switzerland','Syria','Taiwan','Tajikistan','Tanzania','Thailand','Togo','Tokelau','Tonga','Trinidad','Tobago','Tunisia','Turkey','Turkmenistan','Tuvalu','Uganda','Ukraine','Britain','England','Scotland','Wales','America','Uruguay','Uzbekistan','Vanuatu','Vatican','Venezuela','Vietnam','Wallis','Futuna','Sahara','Yemen','Yugoslavia','Zambia','Zimbabwe'] import random class Mdict: def __init__(self): self.d = {} def __getitem__(self, key): if key in self.d: return self.d[key] else: raise KeyError(key) def add_key(self, prefix, suffix): if prefix in self.d: self.d[prefix].append(suffix) else: self.d[prefix] = [suffix] def get_suffix(self,prefix): l = self[prefix] return random.choice(l) class MName: # A name from a Markov chain def __init__(self, chainlen = 2): # Building the dictionary if chainlen > 10 or chainlen < 1: print "Chain length must be between 1 and 10, inclusive" sys.exit(0) self.mcd = Mdict() oldnames = [] self.chainlen = chainlen for l in PLACES: l = l.strip() oldnames.append(l) s = " " * chainlen + l for n in range(0,len(l)): self.mcd.add_key(s[n:n+chainlen], s[n+chainlen]) self.mcd.add_key(s[len(l):len(l)+chainlen], "\n") def New(self): # New name from the Markov chain prefix = " " * self.chainlen name = "" suffix = "" while True: suffix = self.mcd.get_suffix(prefix) if suffix == "\n" or len(name) > 9: break else: name = name + suffix prefix = prefix[1:] + suffix return name.capitalize() for i in range(100): print MName().New()