99 Bottles of Beer

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
"""
99 Bottles of Beer (by Gerold Penz)
Python can be simple, too :-)
"""

for quant in range(99, 0, -1):
   if quant > 1:
      print quant, "bottles of beer on the wall,", quant, "bottles of beer."
      if quant > 2:
         suffix = str(quant - 1) + " bottles of beer on the wall."
      else:
         suffix = "1 bottle of beer on the wall."
   elif quant == 1:
      print "1 bottle of beer on the wall, 1 bottle of beer."
      suffix = "no more beer on the wall!"
   print "Take one down, pass it around,", suffix
   print "--"

Alternative Versions

Version	Author	Date	Comments	Rate
Creative version	Schizo	11/06/05	11
minimal version	Oliver Xymoron	04/20/05	3
Advanced, extensible beer/wall framework	Jamie Turner	05/17/06	3
Exception based	Michael Galpin	02/08/08	0
Using a iterator class	Eric Moritz	01/20/06	2
Fully compliant version	Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez	01/15/06	5
New conditional expressions in 2.5	Ezequiel Pochiero	12/18/06	0
using lambda in LISP style	J Adrian Zimmer	11/14/06	0
functional, w/o variables or procedures	Ivan Tkatchev	07/14/05	1
minimal version with singular	Emlyn Jones	06/13/05	2

Comments

 Wen Zhang said on 08/30/06 05:08:39

Look this one

b=lambda n:'\n%s bottle%s of beer on the wall'%(n%100 or'No more','s'*(n!=1))
for n in range(99,-1,-1):print(b(n)*2)[:-12]+'\n'+'Take one down, pass it \
around'*(n!=0)+'Go to the store and buy some more'*(n==0)+b(n-1)

 Wen Zhang said on 08/30/06 14:33:49

Clean One:

'''99 Bottles of Beer in Python by Wen Zhang. Nature version'''

bottle = ' bottles of beer on the wall'
take = '.\nTake one down and pass it around,'
for n in reversed(range(100)):
nBottle = str(n) + bottle
if n == 1:
nBottle = nBottle.replace('es','e')
if n == 0:
nBottle = 'no more' + bottle
take = '.\nGo to the store and buy some more, 99' + bottle + '.'
if n != 99:
print nBottle + '.\n'
print nBottle.capitalize() + ', ' + nBottle[:-12] + take,

 Wen Zhang said on 08/30/06 14:53:03

For above code, you need to indent certain lines. The post cannot show indents.

 Ivan said on 08/31/07 14:52:51

whole song in one explression

print("".join(map(lambda x: x and "%s%d bottle%s of beer on the wall, %d bottle%s of beer...\nTake one down, pass it around.\n"%(x<99 and "%d bottles of beer on the wall.\n\n"%x or "\n", x, x>1 and "s" or " ", x, x>1 and "s" or " " or "No bottles of beer on the wall.\n\nNo more bottles of beer...\nGo to the store and buy some more...\n99 bottles of beer.", range(99,-1,-1))))

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