Print something random

random.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib2
import urllib
import re

def randomThing():
    randomURL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random"
    req = urllib2.Request(randomURL)
    res = urllib2.urlopen(req)
    finalurl = res.geturl()
    decoded = urllib.unquote(finalurl)
    endpath = decoded[decoded.rfind('/')+1:]
    thing = endpath.replace('_', ' ')
    simpleThing = output = re.sub('\(\w*\)', '', thing)
    return simpleThing

print randomThing()