User:Alice/Special Issue V

Reader #1

Title and topic

Techno/Cyber/Xeno-Feminism The Intimate and Possibly Subversive Relationship Between Women and Machines Reader explores topics from women's introduction into the technological workforce, the connection between weaving and programming, and using technology in favour of the feminist movement. One major concept that appears throughout the reader is an almost mystical connection between women and software writing, embedded deep in women's tradition of weaving not just threads, but networks. Does software have a gender?

Research

Code

<source lang=python>

import linecache import textwrap import sys from sys import exit

class LeavingProgram(Exception):

   pass

def parse(program):

   cmds = program.split(',')
   splitted_cmds = []
   for cmd in cmds:
       splitted = cmd.split()
       splitted_cmds.append(splitted)
   return splitted_cmds

   #return tokenize(program)

def tokenize(s):

   return s.split()

def repl():

   while True:
       try:
           val = eval(parse(input('> ')))
           if val is not None:
               print(val)
       except LeavingProgram:
           break

text = None line_number = 0 last_index = 0

def eval(cmds):

   global text
   global line_number
   global last_index

   for cmd in cmds:
       if cmd == []:
           line_number += 1
           last_index = 0

       elif cmd[0] == 'load':
           contents = open('output.txt').read()
           text = textwrap.wrap(contents, 40, break_long_words=True)
           print('\n'.join(text))
           line_number = 0
           last_index = 0

       elif cmd[0] == 'show':
           print(text[line_number])

       elif cmd[0] == 'under':
           current_line = text[line_number]
           char_number = int(cmd[1]) - 1
           char_list = list(current_line)

           x=range(last_index, char_number + last_index + 1)
           for time in x:
               if time < len(char_list):
                   char_list[time] = u'\u21e2'

           last_index += char_number + 1

           joined = .join(char_list)
           text[line_number] = joined

       elif cmd[0] == 'over':
           last_index += int(cmd[1])

       elif cmd[0] == 'pattern':

           pattern = text[0:line_number + 1]
           print('\n'.join(pattern))

       elif cmd[0] == 'quit':
           print('Adios!')
           raise LeavingProgram()
       else:
           joined = ' '.join(cmd)
           print('Did not understand command {}'.format(joined))

if __name__ == '__main__':

   repl()

<source>