Ubuntu AppIndicator to show Chuck Norris jokes - Updated to python 3

myappindicator_v5.py

# This code is an example for a tutorial on Ubuntu Unity/Gnome AppIndicators:
# http://candidtim.github.io/appindicator/2014/09/13/ubuntu-appindicator-step-by-step.html

import os
import signal
import json

from urllib import request
from urllib.error import URLError
from urllib.request import urlopen

from gi.repository import Gtk as gtk
from gi.repository import AppIndicator3 as appindicator
from gi.repository import Notify as notify


APPINDICATOR_ID = 'myappindicator'

def main():
    indicator = appindicator.Indicator.new(APPINDICATOR_ID, os.path.abspath('sample_icon.svg'), appindicator.IndicatorCategory.SYSTEM_SERVICES)
    indicator.set_status(appindicator.IndicatorStatus.ACTIVE)
    indicator.set_menu(build_menu())
    notify.init(APPINDICATOR_ID)
    gtk.main()

def build_menu():
    menu = gtk.Menu()
    item_joke = gtk.MenuItem('Joke')
    item_joke.connect('activate', joke)
    menu.append(item_joke)
    item_quit = gtk.MenuItem('Quit')
    item_quit.connect('activate', quit)
    menu.append(item_quit)
    menu.show_all()
    return menu

def fetch_joke():
    with urlopen('http://api.icndb.com/jokes/random?limitTo=[nerdy]') as req:
        msg = req.read();
        msg = msg.decode('utf-8')
        joke = json.loads(msg)['value']['joke']
    return joke

def joke(_):
    notify.Notification.new("<b>Joke</b>", fetch_joke(), None).show()

def quit(_):
    notify.uninit()
    gtk.main_quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
    main()

Awesome!

hey, how did you work around this on python3

user:my-indicator$ python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 10, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Gtk as gtk
  File "/home/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 39
    print url
            ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

In python3, "print" is a function, not a statement. Thus instead of print url type print(url).