Testing Knowledge of Classes

import random
from urllib import urlopen
import sys

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 paramters self, @@@.",
    "***.*** = '***'":
        "From *** get the *** attribute and set it to '***'."
}

#do they want to drill phrases first
PHRASE_FIRST = False
if len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1] == "english":
    PHRASE_FIRST = True

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

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

    for i in range(0, snippet.count("@@@")):
        param_count = random.randint(1,3)
        param_names.append(', '.join(random.sample(WORDS, param_count)))

    for sentence in snippet, phrase:
        result = sentence[:]

        # fake class names
        for word in class_names:
            result = result.replace("###", word, 1)

        # fake other names
        for word in other_names:
            result = result.replace("***", word, 1)

        # fake parameter lists
        for word in param_names:
            result = result.replace("@@@", word, 1)

        results.append(result)

    return results

# keep going until they hit CTRL-D
try:
    while True:
        snippets = PHRASES.keys()
        random.shuffle(snippets)

        for snippet in snippets:
            phrase = PHRASES[snippet]
            question, answer = convert(snippet, phrase)
            if PHRASE_FIRST:
                question, answer = answer, question

            print question

            raw_input("> ")
            print "ANSWER: %s\n\n" % answer

except EOFError:
    print "\nBye"