Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: pymesomake
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: An implementation of the mesostic generation algorithm Andrew Culver developed for John Cage.
Home-page: https://github.com/erictheise/pymesomake
Author: Eric Theise
Author-email: erictheise@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: ## PyMesomake
        
        PyMesomake is a Python 3 implementation of the mesostic generation algorithm Andrew Culver developed for John Cage.
        
        
        ### Installation
        
        Unless you've previously used Python's Natural Language Tool Kit you'll see this error on your first run of `PyMesomake`.
        
        ```
        LookupError: 
        **********************************************************************
          Resource punkt not found.
          Please use the NLTK Downloader to obtain the resource:
        
          >>> import nltk
          >>> nltk.download('punkt')
          
          Attempted to load tokenizers/punkt/PY3/english.pickle
        
          Searched in:
            - '/Users/erictheise/nltk_data'
            - '/Users/erictheise/Repos/erictheise/venvs/pymesomake/nltk_data'
            - '/Users/erictheise/Repos/erictheise/venvs/pymesomake/share/nltk_data'
            - '/Users/erictheise/Repos/erictheise/venvs/pymesomake/lib/nltk_data'
            - '/usr/share/nltk_data'
            - '/usr/local/share/nltk_data'
            - '/usr/lib/nltk_data'
            - '/usr/local/lib/nltk_data'
            - ''
        **********************************************************************
        ```
        You can download that component with:
        ```
        $ python -m nltk.downloader punkt
        [nltk_data] Downloading package punkt to
        [nltk_data]     /Users/erictheise/nltk_data...
        [nltk_data]   Unzipping tokenizers/punkt.zip.
        $
        ```
        ### Usage
        
        ```
        python pymesomake --sourcefile='data/genesis.txt' --mesostring="these are the times that try men's souls"
        ```
        
        
        ### Reminder to Maintainer
        
        Publish thusly:
        
        ```
        $ python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
        $ twine updload dist/*
        ```
        
        ### Acknowledgements & Resources
        
        Andrew Culver
        
        * [post to silence mailing list](https://lists.virginia.edu/sympa/arc/silence/2019-01/msg00013.html) that inspired this code
        * compilation of [computer programs used by John Cage](http://www.anarchicharmony.org/People/Culver/CagePrograms.html)
          
        The Holy See
        
        * [source of Genesis text](http://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/genesis/documents/bible_genesis_en.html). HTML source subjected to these minimal edits:
            * removal of page navigation elements
            * removal of chapter headings (e.g., "Chapter 6") and line numbering (e.g., "[1:30]")
            
            
        Marjorie Perloff contextual essays
        
        * [John Cage Conceptualist Poet](http://thebatterseareview.com/critical-prose/116-john-cage-conceptualist-poet)
        * [The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage’s “What You Say”](http://marjorieperloff.com/essays/cage-verbal-space/)
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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