Ported banterbot to pinhook framework and some other changes

Code/irc/newBanter.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+import random
+import re
+
+dictDir = "/usr/share/dict/"
+
+def getBanter(morphWord="bant", dictName="words"):
+    with open(dictDir + dictName, "r") as dict:
+        # get rid of all the words with apostrophes
+        words = list(filter(lambda word: re.search(r"^[^']*$", word), dict.readlines()))
+
+        head = getBanterHead(words, morphWord)
+        tail = getBanterTail(words, morphWord)
+
+        if head == "" and tail == "":
+            return "" # dang, we just failed
+        else:
+            # pick randomly between non-empty strings
+            return random.choice([w for w in [head, tail] if w != ""])
+
+def getBanterHead(words, morphWord):
+    morphHead = morphWord[0:-1]
+    morphLast = morphWord[-1]
+
+    filtered = list(filter(lambda word: re.search(morphHead, word), words))
+    if len(filtered) == 0:
+        return "" # nothing applicable found
+
+    word = random.choice(filtered).strip("\n")
+    end = word.find(morphHead) + len(morphHead)
+    if end == len(word):
+        return word + morphLast
+    else:
+        if "aeiou".find(word[end]) > -1:  # just append 't'
+            return word[:end] + morphLast + word[end:]
+        else:  # replace the letter with 'b'
+            return word[:end] + morphLast + word[end + 1 :]
+
+def getBanterTail(words, morphWord):
+    morphTail = morphWord[1:]
+    morphFirst = morphWord[0]
+
+    filtered = list(filter(lambda word: re.search(morphTail, word), words))
+    if len(filtered) == 0:
+        return "" # nothing applicable found
+
+    word = random.choice(filtered).strip("\n")
+    start = word.find(morphTail)
+    if start == 0:
+        return morphFirst + word
+    else:
+        if "aeiou".find(word[start]) > -1:  # just append a 'b'
+            return word[:start] + morphFirst + word[start:]
+        else:  # replace the letter with 'b'
+            return word[: start - 1] + morphFirst + word[start:]