Anja was having a bad day, and I was experimenting with flask. I thought this random compliment generator might cheer her up, albeit briefly. Yeah, I'm a dork...
When the index page is requested, Flask serves up this function. The index page contains an instruction to refresh every 3 seconds.
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def hello():
randnum1 = random.randint(1,3) # text or emoji
if randnum1 == 1:
emojis = [':kiss:',':smiling_face_with_heart-eyes:,':thumbs_up:']
randnum2 = random.randint(0,2)
sentence = emoji.emojize(randnum2)
else:
name = ['Anja']
verb = ['is']
amplifier = ['crazy','fucking','heaps','so crazy',' so fucking','heaps']
quality = ['talented','smart','kind','awesome','sensible','sexy','great']
words = [name,verb,amplifier,quality]
sentence = ''
for w in words:
sentence += w[random.randint(0,len(w)-1)] + ' '
sentence = sentence[:-1] + '!'
return render_template('index.html', sentence=sentence)The next step in experiementation would have been to refactor the app into a compliment generator microservice and a page that repeats a single GET request.