Markov

Encapsulates the statistical summary of a text.

Methods

init

Parameters

name	description	default
self

process_file

Reads a file and performs Markov analysis. filename: string order: integer number of words in the prefix Returns: map from prefix to list of possible suffixes.

Parameters

name	description	default
self
filename
order		2

process_word

Processes each word. word: string order: integer During the first few iterations, all we do is store up the words; after that we start adding entries to the dictionary.

Parameters

name	description	default
self
word
order		2

random_text

Generates random wordsfrom the analyzed text. Starts with a random prefix from the dictionary. n: number of words to generate

Parameters

name	description	default
self
n		100