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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+"""Pick a random word from this script's source file and output it."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pathlib
+import random
+import typing
+
+
+if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from typing import Final
+
+
+class EmptyWordError(RuntimeError):
+    """An empty word was chosen, `str.split()` is not suppoed to do that."""
+
+    words: list[str]
+    """The words among which the empty word was found."""
+
+    def __str__(self) -> str:
+        """Provide a human-readable error message."""
+        return f"Internal error: empty word in {self.words!r}"
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    """Find the source file, select a word, output it."""
+    words: Final = pathlib.Path(__file__).read_text(encoding="UTF-8").split()
+    chosen_one: Final = random.choice(words)  # noqa: S311  # no cryptography here
+    if not chosen_one:
+        raise EmptyWordError(words)
+
+    print(chosen_one)  # noqa: T201  # this is the whole point of this program
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()