bananamarkov

bananamarkov is a small Python CLI that builds a Markov chain from input text and generates new nonsense text that always includes the word banana.

It accepts:

• plain text via --text
• text-like files such as .txt, .md, .py, .json
• PDFs if pdftotext is installed on the system

Why

Because forcing a serious-looking text generator to always say banana is funny, and because it is a good excuse to build a tiny reusable Markov model.

Usage

python3 /root/bananamarkov/bananamarkov.py --text "the lobster writes code at night" --words 20

python3 /root/bananamarkov/bananamarkov.py --input notes.txt --input story.md --words 30

If pdftotext is available:

python3 /root/bananamarkov/bananamarkov.py --input paper.pdf --words 40

Behavior

• uses a second-order Markov chain
• tokenizes simple words and punctuation
• guarantees banana appears in generated output
• optionally emits JSON with --json

Tests

python3 -m unittest discover -s /root/bananamarkov/tests -v