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obscure_words.py

import urllib2
import string

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
#from bs4 import BeautifulSoup  # if using BeautifulSoup4

name_out = '/path/to/Desktop/words.csv'

the_file_out = open(name_out, 'w')
for alpha in list(string.ascii_lowercase): # ['a','b','c']: #
    lines = []
    print 'processing %s' % alpha
    soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen('http://phrontistery.info/%s.html' % alpha).read())
    soup.table['class']
    t = soup.find('table', {"class": "words"})
    rows = t.findAll('tr')
    for r in rows:
        tds = r.findAll('td')
        if tds[0].string:
            lines.append((tds[0].string.strip('\n'), tds[1].string.strip('\n')))
    for l in lines:
        try:
            the_file_out.write('"%s","%s"\n' % (l[0],l[1]))
        except UnicodeEncodeError:
            print l[0],l[1]
the_file_out.close()