w: Print summary of Wikipedia article to STDOUT

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# Requires wikipedia module.  '$ pip install wikipedia' Put it in your
# path and 'chmod +x'.  Then just 'w whatever' and find out what
# something is!  :D

# I couldn't find a good command-line utiity to do this.
# wikipedia2text is okay but it does the whole page, which isn't
# always what I want.  The old command 'dig +short txt "$1.wp.dg.cx"'
# doesn't work anymore.  But this works well.

import sys

try:
    import wikipedia as wp
except:
    print "Requires the wikipedia module.  Use 'pip install wikipedia' to install."
    sys.exit(1)

s = wp.summary(str(sys.argv[1:]))

print s.replace('\n', '\n\n')