Somehow, via Isaac Truett’s repost of a Robert Konigsberg
post that
I just stumbled upon today, I thought it was worth my time to take Rob’s creepy
one-line Mac OS X shell script to the next little level. See, when I ran the
say -v ? command in that script, I found the output…amusing. But, since it’s
a pain to parse strings into multiple fields in a shell loop, I dropped down to
Python to do the dirty deed.
I call it creepy.py. Run it with the lights on, folks.
#! /usr/bin/env python
import os
import re
import subprocess
for l in subprocess.Popen(['say', '-v', '?'],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].split('\n'):
if not l: break
l = re.sub(' +', '|', l)
name, _, quote = [s.strip('# ') for s in l.split('|')]
print "%s: %s" % (name, quote)
subprocess.call('say -v "%s" "My name is %s. %s"' % (name, name, quote),
shell=True)