A Pythonic evening with Eliza
Now I can ‘Chat’ with Eliza using this tiny Python program written by none other than me (Thanks to Unni for his ruby implementation of the same)
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# Copied the idea from Unni without shame :) #
# This is just a proof of concept that anything in working in Ruby #
# can be implemented in Python with elegance .. Python RuleZ.. #
# This program will talk with eliza, the psychiatrist AI program #
# By Maxin B. John <maxinbjohn@gmail.com> #
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import httplib
import urllib
#Function that POSTS the string to eliza website and formats the reply
# my_dialog is the string that we POST to the www-ai.ijs.si website
# obtains the reply from eliza scripts and prints it on the screen
def eliza(my_dialog):
params = urllib.urlencode({’Entry1′: my_dialog})
headers = {”Content-type”: “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”,”Accept”: “text/plain”}
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(“www-ai.ijs.si”)
conn.request(“POST”, “/eliza-cgi-bin/eliza_script”, params, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print str(data.split(’</strong>’)[2]).split(’\n’)[1]
conn.close()
# invoking the eliza function to test it’s functionality in pythonic way
if __name__== ‘__main__’:
eliza(’I love python’)
What else to say , Python RuleZ