Python CodeAlong: an intro to the Zen of Python and webscraping with Beautiful Soup.

ask_zen_of_python.py

# standard library
import random
from urllib.request import urlopen
# third-party
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# make an HTTP request to get the Zen of Python
url = "https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/"
html = urlopen(url)

# create a Beautiful Soup object
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

# find the first class match
zen_of_python = soup.find("pre", {"class": "literal-block"}).get_text()

# process the lines
lines = zen_of_python.split("\n")

# remove leading and trailing new lines
clean_lines = lines[1:-1] 

# display a random line from Zen of Python
print(random.choice(clean_lines))

### FURTHER READING ###

# Find PEP 20 -- The Zen of Python -- at 
# https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

# Read more about web scraping with Beautiful Soup at
# https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/

# Requests is another highly recommended third-party HTTP package for Python:
# http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/

# Looking for a free place to store your programs online?
# Try GitHub Gists: https://gist.github.com/