The drinking game involving Wikipedia

wiki.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import print_function
import urllib2
import httplib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer
import string
import time

def get_wiki(link):
    try:
        response = urllib2.urlopen(link)
        return response
    except urllib2.URLError as e:
        pass
    except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
        pass
    except httplib.HTTPException as e:
        pass
    except Exception:
        import traceback
        print(traceback.format_exc())

def get_random_wiki():
    random_link = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random"
    return get_wiki(random_link)
            
def first_lowercase_link(wiki):
    content = BeautifulSoup(wiki).find_all(id='mw-content-text')
    print(content)
    content = content[0]
    prefix = "https://en.wikipedia.org"
    for para in content.find_all('p'):
        for link in para.find_all('a', href=True):
            if link.text and link.text[0] in string.ascii_lowercase:
                return (urllib2.urlparse.urljoin(prefix, link["href"]), link.text)

def links_to_topic(wiki, topic=""):
    links = []
    link = first_lowercase_link(wiki)
    while link and link[1].lower() != topic:
        links.append(link)
        next_wiki = get_wiki(link[0])
        link = first_lowercase_link(next_wiki)
    if link:
        links.append(link)
    return links

def test():
    MAX_ITER = 10
    links = {}
    for n in xrange(MAX_ITER):
        random_wiki = get_random_wiki()
        random_wiki_title = BeautifulSoup(random_wiki.read()).find(id="firstHeading").text
        links[random_wiki_title] = links_to_topic(random_wiki, topic="philosophy")
    print(links)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    test()