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Creates a list with the name of all programming languages there are (based on Wikipedia)
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prog_languages.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Danilo de Jesus da Silva Bellini
# Created on Thu Apr 18 2013
"""
Prints all programming languages (from Wikipedia)
"""
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Needs "pip install beautifulsoup4"
from urllib2 import Request, build_opener
url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages"
ff_string = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11"
req = Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": ff_string})
data = build_opener().open(req).read()
for link in BeautifulSoup(data).select(".multicol a"):
print link.text
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