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Scrapes Pypi package list for a random Python module.
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random_pypi_package.py
import urllib2, re, random
html = urllib2.urlopen('https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=index').read()
r = re.compile(r'/pypi/([-A-Za-z0-9\.]+)/([-A-Za-z0-9\.]+)')
pkgName, pkgVersion = random.choice(re.findall(r, html))
print 'Found random package {} {}, located at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{}/{}'.format(pkgName, pkgVersion, pkgName, pkgVersion)
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