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DETECTING ENGLISH
PROGRAMMATICALLY
Topics Covered In This Chapter:
Dictionaries
The split() Method
The None Value
"Divide by Zero" Errors
The float(), int(), and str() Functions and Python 2 Division
The append() List Method
Default Arguments
Calculating Percentage
The gaffer says something longer and more
complicated. After a while, Waterhouse (now
wearing his cryptoanalyst hat, searching for
meaning midst apparent randomness, his neural
circuits exploiting the redundancies in the signal)
realizes that the man is speaking heavily accented
English.
“Cryptonomicon” by Neal Stephenson