Print to screen a random country

randomCountry.py

#!/usr/bin/python -tt

import random

def main():
    """
    This script randomly prints to screen a soverign country from a list of 206 countries
    
    """
    try:
        allcountries = open('allCountries.txt','r')
        clist = allcountries.read()
        clist = clean_list(clist)
        print random.choice(clist)
    except:
        print 'A problem occurred'

def clean_list(list):
    _list = list
    clean_list = _list.split('\n')
    return clean_list

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

"""

Here is the list of countries

Afghanistan 
Albania 
Algeria 
Andorra 
Angola 
Antigua and Barbuda 
Argentina 
Armenia 
Australia 
Austria 
Azerbaijan 
Bahamas 
Bahrain 
Bangladesh 
Barbados 
Belarus 
Belgium 
Belize 
Benin 
Bhutan 
Bolivia 
Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Botswana 
Brazil 
Brunei 
Bulgaria 
Burkina Faso 
Burma 
Burundi 
Cambodia 
Cameroon 
Canada 
Cape Verde 
Central African Republic 
Chad 
Chile 
China 
Colombia 
Comoros 
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 
Congo, Republic of the 
Costa Rica 
Côte d'Ivoire 
Croatia 
Cuba 
Cyprus 
Czech Republic 
Denmark 
Djibouti 
Dominica 
Dominican Republic 
East Timor 
Ecuador 
Egypt 
El Salvador 
Equatorial Guinea 
Eritrea 
Estonia 
Ethiopia 
Fiji 
Finland 
France 
Gabon 
The Gambia 
Georgia 
Germany 
Ghana 
Greece 
Grenada 
Guatemala 
Guinea 
Guinea-Bissau 
Guyana 
Haiti 
Honduras 
Hungary 
Iceland 
India 
Indonesia 
Iran 
Iraq 
Ireland 
Israel 
Italy 
Jamaica 
Japan 
Jordan 
Kazakhstan 
Kenya 
Kiribati 
Korea, North 
Korea, South 
Kuwait 
Kyrgyzstan 
Laos 
Latvia 
Lebanon 
Lesotho 
Liberia 
Libya 
Liechtenstein 
Lithuania 
Luxembourg 
Macedonia 
Madagascar 
Malawi 
Malaysia 
Maldives 
Mali 
Malta 
Marshall Islands 
Mauritania 
Mauritius 
Mexico 
Micronesia, Federated States of 
Moldova 
Monaco 
Mongolia 
Montenegro 
Morocco 
Mozambique 
Namibia 
Nauru 
Nepal 
Netherlands 
New Zealand 
Nicaragua 
Niger 
Nigeria 
Norway 
Oman 
Pakistan 
Palau 
Panama 
Papua New Guinea 
Paraguay 
Peru 
Philippines 
Poland 
Portugal 
Qatar 
Romania 
Russia 
Rwanda 
Saint Kitts and Nevis 
Saint Lucia 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 
Samoa 
San Marino 
São Tomé and Príncipe 
Saudi Arabia 
Senegal 
Serbia 
Seychelles 
Sierra Leone 
Singapore 
Slovakia 
Slovenia 
Solomon Islands 
Somalia 
South Africa 
South Sudan 
Spain 
Sri Lanka 
Sudan 
Suriname 
Swaziland 
Sweden 
Switzerland 
Syria 
Tajikistan 
Tanzania 
Thailand 
Togo 
Tonga 
Trinidad and Tobago 
Tunisia 
Turkey 
Turkmenistan 
Tuvalu 
Uganda 
Ukraine 
United Arab Emirates 
United Kingdom 
United States 
Uruguay 
Uzbekistan 
Vanuatu 
Vatican City 
Venezuela 
Vietnam 
Yemen 
Zambia 
Zimbabwe 
Abkhazia 
Cook Islands 
Kosovo 
Nagorno-Karabakh 
Niue 
Northern Cyprus 
Palestine 
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic 
Somaliland 
South Ossetia 
Taiwan 
Transnistria 


"""