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<oerjan> le/rn soviet union/In ancient history, the Soviet Union used to be the THEM. They believed in absurd principles like "Better Red than Dead". Then Ronald Reagan invented Star Wars to destroy it, after which there seemed to be no the THEM for a while.
author HackBot
date Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:39:22 +0000
parents e037173e0012
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#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import sys
import json
import urllib2

proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': os.environ['http_proxy']})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_handler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

def lose():
    print 'You get NOTHING! You LOSE! Good DAY sir!'
    sys.exit()

def eels():
    print 'My hovercraft is full of eels.'
    sys.exit()

if len(sys.argv) > 2:
    args = sys.argv[1:]
elif len(sys.argv) == 2:
    args = sys.argv[1].split()
else:
    lose()

if len(args) == 2:
    from_lang = args[0]
    to_lang = 'en'
    word = args[1]
elif len(args) == 3:
    from_lang = args[0]
    to_lang = args[1]
    word = args[2]
else:
    lose()

def query(continue_id):
    url = 'http://%s.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&' \
        'redirects=1&titles=%s&prop=langlinks' % (from_lang, word)
    if continue_id:
        url += '&llcontinue=' + continue_id
    try:
        response = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
    except urllib2.URLError, e:
        print e.reason
        sys.exit()
    return json.loads(response)

continue_id = None
while True:
    q = query(continue_id)
    if '-1' in q['query']['pages']:
        eels()
    page = q['query']['pages'].values()[0]
    if 'langlinks' not in page:
        eels()
    for link in q['query']['pages'].values()[0]['langlinks']:
        if link['lang'] == to_lang:
            print link['*'].encode('utf-8')
            sys.exit()
    if 'query-continue' in q:
        continue_id = q['query-continue']['langlinks']['llcontinue']
    else:
        eels()