Swapbot

Introduction

The Manifestos Bot/s uses Metaheaven Manifesto and Hackers Manifesto by McKenzie Wark as inputs. Each bot acts as an independent agent replacing keywords such as 'hacker/s ' with 'designer/s', 'designing' = 'hacking' etc. The aim of which is to blend them together questioning the notion of processes, approaches and roles that are often reversed.

Example

W e t e n d t o h a c k s o t h a t f o r m a n d c o n t e n t m a y o b e y d i f f e r e n t r e g i m e s .

To the designer there is always a surplus of possibility expressed in what is actual, the surplus of the virtual.

Run

Include the txt files (HackerManifesto.txt and MetaheavenManifesto.txt) at the same dir where python scripts are.
Run the two python scripts hackerBot.py & designerBot.py at the irc chat.
Reset the time interval --sleep.time(10) / sleep.time(5) according to the rest of the bots and their behavior


import sys
import os
from random import choice
import random
import re
import time

################### hackerBot 

txt = 'MetaheavenManifesto.txt'

def sentences(txt):
	txt = ''.join(open(txt).readlines())
	basket = re.split(r' *[\.\?!][\'"\)\]]* *', txt)
	sentence = random.choice(basket)
	replaced = sentence.replace("designer" , "hacker").replace("design", "hack").replace("desiners", "hackers").replace("Designers" , "Hackers").replace("designing" , "hacking")
	tokens = ' '.join(replaced.replace('\n', '') +".")
	return tokens
	if tokens == '.':
		tokens = ' '.join(replaced.replace('.', '') )
		print 
		"""
 :::=======  :::====  :::= === ::: :::===== :::===== :::===  :::==== :::==== 
 ::: === === :::  === :::===== ::: :::      :::      :::     :::==== :::  ===
 === === === ======== ======== === ======   ======    =====    ===   ===  ===
 ===     === ===  === === ==== === ===      ===          ===   ===   ===  ===
 ===     === ===  === ===  === === ===      ======== ======    ===    ====== 
""" 

while True:
	replaced = sentences(txt)
	tstr = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", time.localtime())
	out = u"({0}) {1}".format(tstr, "_HackerBot")
	sys.stdout.write(out.encode("utf-8")+"\n")
	sys.stdout.flush()
	# change a sentence every 5 sec
	time.sleep(10)
	print replaced