Grabs headlines and their links from Hacker news

HN_grab.py

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

HN_url = "http://news.ycombinator.com"

def get_page():
	page_html = urllib2.urlopen(HN_url)	
	return page_html
	
def get_stories(content):
	soup = BeautifulSoup(content)
	titles_html =[]
	
	for td in soup.findAll("td", { "class":"title" }):
		titles_html += td.findAll("a")
		
	return titles_html
	

for title_a in get_stories(get_page()):
	title = title_a.string.strip()
	url = title_a['href']
	print "*", title, url