Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: UNSURE 0.210 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.60; '*S*': 0.02; 'reason,': 0.07; 'subject:Help': 0.11; 'collins,': 0.16; 'given,': 0.16; 'laws.': 0.16; 'subject:Programming': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'bit': 0.19; 'pieces': 0.19; 'code,': 0.22; 'example': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'laws': 0.24; 'fine': 0.24; 'post': 0.26; 'header :In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'to:2**1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; 'posting': 0.31; 'author,': 0.31; 'piece': 0.31; 'figure': 0.32; 'another': 0.32; 'text': 0.33; 'could': 0.34; 'subject:with': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'doubt': 0.36; 'project': 0.37; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'how': 0.40; 'matter': 0.61; 'name': 0.63; 'subject:Need': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'to:addr:gmail.com': 0.65; 'here': 0.66; 'believe': 0.68; 'to,': 0.72; 'books.': 0.84; 'fat': 0.84; 'given.': 0.84; 'profit.': 0.84; 'subject:Project': 0.84; 'subject:Science': 0.91; 'examine': 0.93; 'insane': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=aVaHNMb5hMnK6fgzSZrZAWUpT712jkfTJXk9jb8viAQ=; b=lmN7fbtSwo89hG44UB+nNuUPFpvCDTB7itIoNbA0ZmG0IW57/kFRaGCu5BpOzNm3Ch hkqVNw53dQrBjYZp+pDxyis3wBjrvZ3TDf6F3A5oZxkTTVatnHanUB757MxWUepldCWt OBHT8TLxpmfG/S4XdbyW6WTNewrhiz1Idyt6vongainP1L0NQbfA7RpsvWBb2tOHheSB BrUoD98O0qnc2qJsDGYActRLYmo5iVSzYwX6Oen2uulQftr+VV80VJXMg7R3it1ra1CW uTAsBT+Yas62rZIOpFpUE9CgkLX24Ae0uywQRoc3ttvRbYk1w+GDzHYD0ssv/IjtAe+T bmQA== X-Received: by 10.140.90.80 with SMTP id w74mr23575930qgd.96.1390606703194; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:38:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:38:19 -0500 From: bob gailer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: theguy , python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Need Help with Programming Science Project References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 01:30:04 +0100 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 7 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1390609805 news.xs4all.nl 2933 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:60052 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:64707 On 1/24/2014 5:05 AM, theguy wrote: > I have a science project that involves designing a program which can examine a bit of text with the author's name given, then figure out who the author is if another piece of example text without the name is given. I so far have three different authors in the program and have already put in the example text but for some reason, the program always leans toward one specific author, Suzanne Collins, no matter what insane number I try to put in or how much I tinker with the coding. I would post the code, but I don't know if it's fine to put it here, as it contains pieces from books. I do believe that would go against copyright laws. AFAIK copyright laws apply to reproducing something for profit. I doubt that posting it here will matter. In any case do post your code; you could trim the fat out of the text if you need to,