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import random

names_file
= file('/etc/dictionaries-common/words')
num_dict_lines
= 9900            # A-Z, no apostrophes, approximate!
bytes
= num_dict_lines * 10 * 8  # lines * avg word len * bytes/char
rand_words
= [ln for ln in names_file.readlines(bytes) if "'" not in ln]
names_file
.close()

def gen_name():
    idx
= random.randint(2, num_dict_lines)
    username
= rand_words[idx]
   
#print 'last:', rand_words[num_dict_lines]
   
return username.strip()

# Generate a few samples.
for i in range(3):
   
print gen_name(),

# Printed: Sister Frankfort Babbitt

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