[Orochimaru]

I'm playing with Zed A Shaw's tutorial again and this time he chose not to explain what he is doing line by line like he used to do in previous exercises.
http://learnpythonth.../book/ex41.html
So I'm trying to understand the script oop_test.py that he wrote by breaking things down piece by piece. And now I've finally hit the wall />/>/>

I don't understand why MyTest code's snippet.count("###") gives me different results everytime I run it?

snippet.count("###") =  1
class_names =  ['behavior']
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snippet.count("###") =  0
class_names =  []
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snippet.count("###") =  1
class_names =  ['Agreement']
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snippet.count("###") =  2
class_names =  ['Attraction', 'Back']
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snippet.count("###") =  2
class_names =  ['Bottle', 'Cough']
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snippet.count("###") =  0
class_names =  []

Can somebody help explain to me what is going on in the def convert(snippet, phrase): function?
The results from this function confuses me />/>

MyTest.py

import random
from urllib import urlopen
from pprint import pprint

# http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html

WORD_URL = "http://learncodethehardway.org/words.txt"
WORDS = []

PHRASES = {
    "class ###(###):":
        "Make a class named ### that is-a ###.",
    "class ###(object):\n\tdef __init___(self, ***)":
        "class ### has-a __init__ that takes self and *** parameters.",
    "class ###(object):\n\tdef ***(self, @@@)":
        "class ### has-a function named *** that takes self and @@@ parameters.",
    "*** = ###()":
        "Set *** to an instance of class ###.",
    "***.***(@@@)":
        "From *** get the *** function, and call it with parameters self, @@@.",
    "***.*** = '***'":
        "From *** get the *** attribute and set it to '***'."
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------------

# Dictionary-Key
snippets = PHRASES.keys()
random.shuffle(snippets)
print "\n\tPRINT: snippets (Dictionary-Key)\n"
print snippets

print "\n\tPRETTY-PRINT: snippets (Dictionary-Key)\n"
pprint(snippets)
print
print '-' * 60

#--------------------------------------------------------------------

# Dictionary-Value
print "\nPRINT: phrase (Dictionary-Value)\n"

for snippet in snippets:
    phrase = PHRASES[snippet]
    print "\t*", phrase
    print

print '-' * 60

#--------------------------------------------------------------------

# Load up the words from the website
for word in urlopen(WORD_URL).readlines():
    WORDS.append(word.strip())

print "\n\tPRINT: words\n"
#print WORDS
#pprint(WORDS)

print '-' * 60
print

#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/list_count.htm
# http://pymotw.com/2/random/index.html

def convert(snippet, phrase):
    class_names = [w.capitalize() for w in
                   random.sample(WORDS, snippet.count("###"))]

    print 'snippet.count("###") = ', snippet.count("###")

    print "class_names = ", class_names


convert(snippet, phrase)
print

[Orochimaru]

Ok I think I understand why I get different results everytime after running this code.

MyTest2.py

import random
from urllib import urlopen
from pprint import pprint

# http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html

WORD_URL = "http://learncodethehardway.org/words.txt"
WORDS = []

PHRASES = {
    "class ###(###):":
        "Make a class named ### that is-a ###.",
    "class ###(object):\n\tdef __init___(self, ***)":
        "class ### has-a __init__ that takes self and *** parameters.",
    "class ###(object):\n\tdef ***(self, @@@)":
        "class ### has-a function named *** that takes self and @@@ parameters.",
    "*** = ###()":
        "Set *** to an instance of class ###.",
    "***.***(@@@)":
        "From *** get the *** function, and call it with parameters self, @@@.",
    "***.*** = '***'":
        "From *** get the *** attribute and set it to '***'."
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------------

# Dictionary-Key
snippets = PHRASES.keys()
random.shuffle(snippets)
print "\n\tPRINT: snippets (Dictionary-Key)\n"
print snippets

print "\n\tPRETTY-PRINT: snippets (Dictionary-Key)\n"
pprint(snippets)
print
print '-' * 60

#--------------------------------------------------------------------

# Dictionary-Value
print "\nPRINT: phrase (Dictionary-Value)\n"

for snippet in snippets:
    phrase = PHRASES[snippet]
    print "\t*", phrase
    print

print '-' * 60

#--------------------------------------------------------------------

# Load up the words from the website
for word in urlopen(WORD_URL).readlines():
    WORDS.append(word.strip())

print "\n\tPRINT: words\n"
#print WORDS
#pprint(WORDS)

print '-' * 60
print

#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/list_count.htm
# http://pymotw.com/2/random/index.html

def convert(snippet, phrase):
    class_names = [w.capitalize() for w in
                   random.sample(WORDS, snippet.count("###"))]

    print 'snippet.count("###") = ', snippet.count("###")
    print "class_names = ", class_names

    other_names = random.sample(WORDS, snippet.count("***"))
    print '\nsnippet.count("***") = ', snippet.count("***")
    print "other_names = ", other_names



convert(snippet, phrase)
print