Python:

The goal of this assignment is to create a version of game Mad Libs. Given a text file with the story, the program will ask the user to fill in the blanks. The program will then show the user the final story.

Word Template Games

Mad Libs are a type of word template game. A story is written with multiple blank spaces. The game has two players. One player asks the other for words to fill in the blanks. The player suggesting words does not know what the story is or what the words are for. Once all the blanks have been filled in, the story is read. Since the person suggesting the words does not know the context, this will lead to a funny but nonsensical story.

An example of a real Mad Lib game is provided at the end of the instructions.

The text files we are using are based on example 1 and example 2.

Programming Project

You will develop a python program that reads from a text file and fills in the blanks for a story.

The first thing the program needs to do it ask for the text file containing the story. The program will then read the file.

While the file is being read, the program will encounter words that start with a square bracket [. A word that starts with a square bracket is a blank. It needs to be filled in by the user. Between the [ and ] in the string is what type of word to ask the user for.

For example, if the program encounters [verb-ending-in-ing] then it should ask "Please give a verb ending in ing". The input from the user is then read to fill in the blank.

Once the entire store is complete, it will be printed out for the user.

The following additional guidelines must be followed:

Only print the story once all blanks have been filled in.

If the type of word being asked for starts with a vowel ask "Please give an "

If the type of word being asked for does not start with a vowel as "Please give a "

Users may give multiple word answers.

Your program should not crash if the file cannot be read. It should exit gracefully.

The blank space may have punctuation, be sure this is correctly printed in the story.

Your program must work with the three example files provided.

If the file does not exist print and error and exit with sys.exit(0)

Welcome to a fun word replacement game. Enter the name of the file to use: fake_file.txt Error Bad File Name 

Example Execution Trace

You must exactly match the below layout.

Welcome to a fun word replacement game. Enter the name of the file to use: example1.txt Please give a name Mark Please give a place Drexel Please give a day of the week Friday Please give a time noon Please give a verb eat Please give an animal raccoon Please give a body part mouth Here is your story: -------------------- Mark is having a party! It's going to be at Drexel on Friday. Please make sure to show up at noon, or else you will be required to eat a/an raccoon with your mouth. 

Welcome to a fun word replacement game. Enter the name of the file to use: mad_lib.txt Please give an adjective cold Please give an adjective loser Please give a noun mountain Please give a noun moon Please give a plural noun cats Please give a game super mario 3 Please give a plural noun men Please give a verb ending in ing reading Please give a verb ending in ing killing Please give a plural noun goats Please give a verb ending in ing knitting Please give a noun swamp Please give a plant spider plant Please give a part of the body leg Please give a place Texas Please give a verb ending in ing programming Please give an adjective excited Please give a number 17 Please give a plural noun sandwiches Here is your story: -------------------- A vacation is when you take a trip to some cold place with your loser family. Usually you go to some place that is near a/an mountain or up on a/an moon. A good vacation place is one where you can ride cats or play super mario 3 or go hunting for men. I like to spend my time reading or killing. When parent go on a vacation, they spend their time eating three goats a day, and fathers play golf, and mothers sit around knitting. Last summer, my little brother fell in a/an swamp and got poison spider plant all over his leg. My family is going to go to (the) Texas, and I will practice programming. Parents need vacations more than kids because parents are always very excited and because they have to work 17 hours every day all year making enough sandwiches to pay for the vacation.