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To get the list of names I cut-n-pasted the wp table into openofice calc; selected the column and pasted it into an editor then turned it into a multi-line string that I could then names.strip().split() in Python to get each name. When told about the male and female characters still left in the names I thought I took the un-split names and removed any character that was not an ASCII alphanumeric or a space ... Oh-oh I know where I went wrong. The names were arranged as several lines of around 8 words each and I did not preserve newlines so the last word of a line and the first word of the next line would become concatenated. Sorry for that. And thanks for the hand edits - I'll update the Python in the next ~24 hours. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 14:16, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
== Go "two interpretations of longest" ==
One of the interpretations of longest in the current Go entry seems to conflict with the informal description of the game -- you lose the game when you cannot add another word, so for example a 2 word sequence where each word has 12 letters would lose to a 3 word sequence where each word has four letters. But this probably means that the task description should be unambiguous about wanting the longest sequence of words -- that the number of letters in the sequence is irrelevant. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 16:25, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
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