beniman8 / thomas-sowell-quote-generator

This is a small python program that generates random quotes from thomas sowell one of my favorite writers

Thomas Sowell Quote Generator

This is a small python program that generates random quotes from thomas sowell one of my favorite writers

We have about 782 quotes !!!!

How to run the program

First thing is you need to create a virtual Environement.

Go to your terminal and cd into the file that you install this program.

Type this in your terminal to create the Virtual environement.

virtualenv venv

Once you created the virtual environement you need to install all the requirements.

Type this in your terminal to first activate your virtual environement.

Windows

venv\Scripts\activate

result:

(venv) C:\You-directory\thomas-sowell-quote-generator

You will see your venv right beside the directory in your shell.

Now you can install the requirements !

Type this in your terminal:

pip install -r requirements.txt

You will see all your package getting installed and you can now run the program named get_quote_gui.py, if you want to run it on a gui.

There is 2 type of csv file stored with quotes. Our GUI program use the thomas_sowell_quotes_short.csv. All this to make sure that our text fit on the gui.

Or

get_a_quote.py if you want to run it on your terminal

Our terminal program use the thomas_sowell_quotes.csv. which has all the quote visible for you to see.

Enjoy The program and hopefully you can learn something !!!