import random, textwrapimport syslines = \[["\nPeople also ask/why is Harriet Tubman/important/to the world", "1/4", "2/3", "1"],\#References google search terms["\nin each pound of dollar bills/", "1/2", "3/4", "1"],\#According to cotton.org["\n\tthe dollar/hasn't/changed", "3/4", "1/2", "1"],\["\n\tin no rush/the first quail calls", "1/3", "2/3", "1"],\["\n\tto put Tubman/on the $20/bill", "2/4", "3/4", "1"], \#According to a CNN Money article from ‘16["\nour Moses/never lost a passenger/", "1/4", "2/4", "2"],\#So it’s been said about Harriet Tubman’s track record["\n\tJesus is/a friend with friends", "1/4", "2/4", "2"],\["\nI just wanted the world/to see", "2/3", "2/3", "2"],\#Spoken by Mamie Till as to why she wanted Emmett’s#coffin open.["\n\tSlave patrol/also called/patterrollers/pattyrollers/paddy rollers/patrollers/", "3/4", "1/3", "2"],\#According to wikipedia["\nshe said/a friend of a friend/of a friend/sent me", "3/4", "1/2", "2"],\#According to https://tinyurl.com/yddx6qaj["\n\tdrove toward Money, Mississippi/$$$$$$", "1/2", "1/2", "3"],\#According to Wikipedia, Emmett Till’s abductors drove him#toward the town of Money, Mississippi["\n\tPeople also ask \twhat is Harriet Tubman/most/most famous for", "2/3", "3/4", "3"],\["\nPeople also ask/what was Harriet Tubman's/life like?", "1/2", "2/3", "3"],\["\n\tTreasure secretary/just like Jesus/we won't stay dead", "2/3", "1/4", "3"]]#code adapted for Python3#code from github and translated from the Italian#is a reconstruction of the method thought to have been used#for Nanni Balestrini’s electronic poem Tape Mark 1, 1962# https://github.com/fanfani/TAPE-MARK-1random.shuffle(lines)stanza_one = [None] * 10stanza_one[0] = lines[0]lines.remove(stanza_one[0])

try:    i = 1 ; j = 0    while j < 9:        if (lines[i][1][0] == stanza_one[j][2][0] \        or lines[i][1][2] == stanza_one[j][2][0] \        or lines[i][1][2] == stanza_one[j][2][2]) \        and lines[i][3] != stanza_one[j][3]:            stanza_one[j+1] = lines[i]            lines.remove(lines[i])            i = 0            j += 1        #otherwise examine the next item        else:            i += 2            continueexcept: sys.exit()#Wikipedia was consulted for information about#Mamie and Emmett Till, Harriet Tubman,#the rock that struck Harriet Tubman in the head,#and slave patrols.#’To holler down the lions’ comes from#’gay chaps at the bar’ by Gwendolyn Brooksstanza = []for line in stanza_one:                stanza.append(line[0])s = '/'.join(stanza).split("/")print ("")for k in range(len(s)):                if k == (len(s) - 1): sys.stdout.write(s[k].lower())                else: sys.stdout.write(s[k].lower() + " ")                # if k > 0 and (k+1)%4 == 0: print ""print ("")

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n=3
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n=4
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n=5
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n=6
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n=7

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