#!/usr/bin/env python

import random
import re
import string

class Token():
    def __init__(self, string):
        self.words = ''.join(ch for ch in string if ch not in string.punctuation).split()

    def contains(self, word):
        if len(self.words) > 0:
            return [True for w in self.words if w == word][0]
        else:
            return False

def squish(text):
    "Remove series of spaces from the text."
    return re.sub('  *', ' ', text)

def routput(string):
    """
    Return string with internal word choices replaced randomly.
    For instance, the string:

    'This feels [|very|quite] [nice|cozy|comfortable].'

    Could return any of the following strings:

    'This feels quite nice.'
    'This feels cozy.'
    'This feels very comfortable.'
    """
    # string =
    acc = []
    for s in string.split("["):
        choices, *rest = s.split("]")
        choice = random.choice(choices.split('|'))
        acc = acc + [choice] + rest
    return squish(''.join(acc))