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Jul 2nd, 2012 | syntax:
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>>> import urllib
>>> data = urllib.urlopen("http://www.robert-king.com").read()
>>> start = data.find("items = [")
>>> end = data.find("]", start)
>>> items = eval(data)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> items = eval(data[start: end])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 1
items = ['Hello World',
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> items = eval(data[start: end].replace("items = ", ""))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 11
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> items = eval(data[start: end].replace("items = ", "") + "]")
>>> from random import choice
>>> while True:
... quote = choice(items)
... if quote == "Hello World":
... print quote
... break
...
Hello World