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Drug Names

Python program to generate pharmaceutical advertisements for fictional drugs

Drug names based on a Markov chain fed by this list of drug names

to use:

set up your virtualenv with Python 3

$ virtualenv -p=(which python3) hm
$ source hm/bin/activate

install the requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.text

use drug_name.create_drug_name to get a medication name, or generate_advertisement.get_ad for a full advertisement.

testing

After activating your virtual env and installing requirements, run

$ pytest

other info

You could regenerate names.txt (list of real drug names) or chain.p if you wanted to, but you don't have to.

Don't forget to check out the official drug_names twitterbot!

Like our twitterbot? Learn to set up your own here.

You can run any of the files containing if name == 'main', including:

• drug_name.py

• generate_advertisement.py

• generate_disease.py

from the command line to print the results.

Example ads

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Example medications

Disaline Pricartax

Oluocine

Difil

Sodone Mal Heparideraletolex

Eque

Rotinavirosin

Pratec

Visalcin

Roxia-Duranupra-1a

Lope

Flol

Hydro

Kalorate

Diane

Estralinid

Zaglitone Benofuviriumaccar

Methalfateride

IIII 123

Ferix

Bis

References

How to Write a Twitter Bot with Python and Tweepy

How to Fake a Sophisticated Knowledge of Wine with Markov Chains