A small Python script to fetch a random programming excuse

excuse.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib2
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

# A simple script to get a quote from programmingexcuses.com
# by Even Holthe
#
# Can be invoked like this: curl -L -s http://tinyurl.com/programmingexcuses | python

class PEParser(HTMLParser):
	def __init__(self):
		HTMLParser.__init__(self)
		self.recording = 0
		self.data = None

	def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
		if tag == 'a':
			self.recording = 1

	def handle_endtag(self, tag):
		if tag == 'a':
			self.recording -=1

	def handle_data(self, data):
		if self.recording:
			self.data = data

parser = PEParser()
parser.feed(urllib2.urlopen('http://programmingexcuses.com/').read())
print parser.data
parser.close()