[Variety fortune plugin] Plugin for Variety background changer that uses the UNIX fortune program as a quotes source

fortune_variety_quotes.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from variety.plugins.IQuoteSource import IQuoteSource
import subprocess, re
from locale import gettext as _

class FortuneSource(IQuoteSource):
    @classmethod
    def get_info(cls):
        return {
            "name": "Fortunes",
            "description": _("Displays quotes using the UNIX fortune program"),
            "author": "Dan Jones",
            "version": "0.1"
            }

    def supports_search(self):
        return False

    def get_random(self):
        fortune = subprocess.check_output(['fortune'])
        q = fortune.split('--')
        quote = q[0].strip()
        if len(q) > 1:
            s = q[1].strip()
            m = re.search('(.+), +"?(.+)"?',s)
            if m:
                author = m.group(1)
                sourceName = m.group(2)
            else:
                author = s
                sourceName = None
        else:
            author = None
            sourceName = None

        r = {
            "quote": quote,
            "author": author,
            "sourceName": sourceName,
            "link": None
            }

        return [r]
    
    def get_for_author(self, author):
        return []

    def get_for_keyword(self, keyword):
        return []

### Read Me
#
# First be sure that fortune is installed and in your PATH
# Copy this file to ~/.config/variety/plugins/quotes
# Restart variety
#
###
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for Chinese users:
We can use the fortune-zh program to get Tang or Song poetry. However its output is colorful with string like \033[32m, so we should remove it:

    quote = quote.replace('\033[32m','')
    quote = quote.replace('\033[33m','')
    quote = quote.replace('\033[m','')

---

中文用户：
可以使用 fortune-zh 来随机生成唐诗宋词，不过这个输出是带颜色的，终端的颜色使用类似 \033[32m 的字符串来控制的，因此我们可以使用上面的代码段来去除这些额外的字符。

tried this plugin but it unfortunately failes with:

File "/home/xxx/.config/variety/plugins/fortune_variety_quotes.py", line 22, in get_random
q = fortune.split('--')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

How can I fix this?

Hey, @goodevilgenius, would you mind if I include this as a built-in quotes plugin in Variety?
Please check varietywalls/variety#263

@peterlevi No problem at all. Looks great!