A simple randomizer that matches a list of names with the Eurovision countries. Put together quickly to randomly assign party-goers to fancy dress.

Run with:

python EURsorandom.py

Asks for 2 pieces of user input [defaults: just hit enter]:

• Countries filename (any list of countries separated by newlines) [default: eurovision2019.participants]
• Names filename (any list of names separated by newlines) [default: names.txt]

Outputs:

• output.txt (a formatted file of results)

Notes:

• Does support having less countries than people and will report total number of times a duplicate was used.
• eurovision2019.finalists will be updated once this is fully known on 16th May 2019.
• Can be used to match any two arbitrary newline separated lists