Reddit 5-7-5 poems

This python program grabs headlines from reddit’s homepage and picks a headline randomly and converts it into a randomized 5-7-5 structured poem

Here YEARS Here 2 undercover
for goes YEARS report. Here is author
YEARS evangelical Atheist is church.

consider understands and seeking understands
service host; want understands want no you
assuming fucking one you’re Lunarpages.

Was Laid Off Obama? Off
Obama? for Obama? Off Employee Was Voting
Voting for Was Off Voting

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from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import urllib
import random

def haiku(words):

for i in range(0,5):
haiku = random.choice(words)
haikuList1.append(haiku)

print ” “.join(haikuList1)

for i in range(0,7):
haiku = random.choice(words)
haikuList2.append(haiku)

print ” “.join(haikuList2)

for i in range(0,5):
haiku = random.choice(words)
haikuList3.append(haiku)

print ” “.join(haikuList3)

url = “http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/”
titlesList = list()
num = int()
haikuList1 = list()
haikuList2 = list()
haikuList3 = list()

data = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(data)

for tag in soup.findAll(“p”, {“class” : “title”} ):
a = tag.findAll(“a”, {“class” : “title “} )
titles = a[0].string.encode(‘ascii’, ‘ignore’)
titles = titles.strip()
titles = titles.split(” “)
titlesList.append(titles)

num = random.randrange(0,len(titlesList))
words = titlesList[num]
haiku(words)

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