Hardy Heron

In celebration of the newly announced "Hardy Heron" version of Ubuntu (8.04) I built a script to randomly generate a name for Ubuntu releases. I did not have a huge corpus of animal names, and I tried to find as many adjectives as I could find, but I used the adjectives and animals from the ubuntu wiki, and here is the script in all it's glory:

import re
from random import randrange

def get_adjectives():
        f = open('adjectives','r')
        adjectives = f.readlines()
        f.close()
        return adjectives

def get_animals():
        f = open('animals','r')
        animals = f.readlines()
        f.close()
        return animals

def choose_adjective(adjectives):
        return adjectives[randrange(len(adjectives))].strip()

def choose_ubuntu(adjectives,animals):
        adj = choose_adjective(adjectives)
        letter = '^%s' % adj[0]
        letter = re.compile(letter)
        animal = [i for i in animals if letter.match(i)]
        if animal == []:
                return choose_ubuntu(adjectives,animals)
        if len(animal)>1:
                animal = animal[randrange(len(animal))].strip()
        else:
                animal = animal[0].strip()
        return [adj,animal]

adjectives = get_adjectives()
animals = get_animals()
ubuntu = choose_ubuntu(adjectives,animals)

print('%s %s' % (ubuntu[0],ubuntu[1]))

The script and the animal and adjective corpusesses (not sure of the plural of corpus) are attached in a zipfile.

P.S. I would have preferred a name like Happy Hummingbird, or something that doesn't sound so much like Hadeda (the reference to a bird does not help it's case). Surely in light of Hoary Hedgehog they should skip H entirely?

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