python house

python/house/house.py

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+# Constants for building the rhyme
+secondaries = ['sowing his corn', 'that crowed in the morn', 'all shaven and shorn', 'all tattered and torn', 'all forlorn', 'with the crumpled horn']
+verbs = ['belonged to', 'kept', 'woke', 'married', 'kissed', 'milked', 'tossed', 'worried', 'killed', 'ate',]
+nouns = ['farmer', 'rooster', 'priest', 'man', 'maiden', 'cow', 'dog', 'cat', 'rat', 'malt',]
+intial = 'This is the house that Jack built.'
+first = 'This is the horse and the hound and the horn'
+last = 'that lay in the house that Jack built.'
+# Build the array of verses
+lines = (["that {} the {}{}".format(verbs[i], nouns[i], '' if i > 5 else ' ' + secondaries[i]) for i in range(10)])[::-1]
+
+# Build a specific verse
+def verse(n):
+    if n == 1: return [intial]
+    if n == 12: return [first] + [lines[-1]] +  verse(11)[1:]
+    return ["This is the {}{}".format(
+            nouns[len(nouns) - n + 1],
+            '' if n < 6 else f' {secondaries[-n + 5 ]}')] + [lines[i - 3] for i in range(n, 2, -1)] + [last]
+recite = lambda start, end : [' '.join(verse(x)) for x in range(start, end + 1)]