A skeleton for an AWS lambda function that will ultimately be used to output an Alexa skill.

lambda_function.py

'''
A skeleton for an AWS lambda function that will ultimately be used to output an 
Alexa skill.
'''

def lambda_handler(event, context):

    '''
    Do work over here
    '''
    
    title  = ''
    output = ''
    card_text  = ''
    reprompt_text = ''
    should_end_session  = False
    
    return build_speechlet_response(title, output, card_text, reprompt_text,
     should_end_session)


def build_speechlet_response(title, output, card_text, reprompt_text,
 should_end_session):
    return {
        'outputSpeech': {
            'type': 'PlainText',
            'text': 'Trump Said: ' + output
        },
        'card': {
            'type': 'Simple',
            'title': title,
            'content': card_text
        },
        'reprompt': {
            'outputSpeech': {
                'type': 'PlainText',
                'text': reprompt_text
            }
        },
        'shouldEndSession': should_end_session
}

def build_response(session_attributes, speechlet_response):
    return {
        'version': '1.0',
        'sessionAttributes': session_attributes,
        'response': speechlet_response
}