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In this exercise, we will write a program called scrambler.py that will scramble each word of the text given as an argument. The scrambling should only work on words with 4 characters or more and should only scramble the letters in the middle of the word, leaving the first and last characters unchanged. The program should take a -s or --seed option (an int with default None) to pass to random.seed().
It should handle text on the command line:
$ ./scrambler.py --seed 1 "foobar bazquux" faobor buuzaqx
Or from a file:
$ cat ../inputs/spiders.txt Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually. $ ./scrambler.py ../inputs/spiders.txt D'not wrory, sdireps, I keep hsuoe csalluay.
Here’s a string diagram to help you think about it:
In this exercise, you will:
- Use a regular expression to split text into words.
- Use the
random.shuffle()function to shuffle alist.
- Create scrambled versions of words by shuffling the middle letters while leaving the first and last unchanged.