Invocation Generator Script Now Available


A small update to The Ten Million Invocations of Esnesnon 22/02/22, to mark its 24-hour anniversary: I've written a small Python script that will produce (up to) the entire 10,000,000 invocations as a text file. It's available to anyone who chips in $2.00 or more for what's otherwise a small, weird, free project. A few things to note here:

  • You'll need to have a basic understanding of how to run a Python script, and probably Python3 installed on your system (but I'm not sure - see below*).
  • You'll also need a file named invocations.txt ready for the invocations to go into.
  • The script will append text to that file rather than replace what's in there, so you can (for example) choose to generate 1-1,000,000, then 1,000,001-2,000,000, then 2,000,001-3,000,000 because...
  • If you choose to generate all 10,000,000 invocations in one go, the process will likely take a while even on a fairly powerful device - (just under 8 minutes on my AMD FX-6300 6-core processor).
  • A TXT file containing all 10,000,000 invocations will be very large indeed: at 1.9GB, you likely won't be able to open it with a standard text editor (though I managed it with Glogg, which is apparently geared towards very large files).
  • If you already happen to have an unrelated file called invocations.txt on your device where this script can get to it (I believe in the same directory - again, see below*) then the invocations will be appended to that. It seems pretty unlikely you'd have a file with this particular name in this particular place, but I feel it's worth mentioning all the same.
  • The Python script is probably not, in itself, worth two bucks. I feel as though it's pretty fully-featured for what it is, but it's very much a perk for anyone who decides to support my work financially rather than something I'm selling as a product in its own right.
  • Finally: *I do not know how to use Python myself. I'm honestly not sure how I made this thing, but it's here and it appears to work so I'm passing it on to you.

That's all for now, folks! It's been exactly 24 hours and we're up to nearly 6,000 invocations recited already. Fun times!

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