Miscellany

hydra[34] [~/wiki_research/wikilib/]> cat fa_list_gen 
#!/usr/local/bin/python
import sys, os, string, math
import wikipedia


nominfo = True
for a in range (1, len(sys.argv)):
  if (sys.argv[a] == "--nominfo"):
    nominfo = True
  else:
    print "Error - incorrect usage."
    print "Correct usage: ./fa_list_gen [--nominfo]"
    sys.exit(10)


FAs = wikipedia.get_featured_articles()
for a in range (0, len(FAs)):
  print FAs[a],

  if (nominfo):
    FA_nom_info = wikipedia.get_fa_noms_information(FAs[a])
    print "|||", FA_nom_info[len(FA_nom_info)-1][0], "|||", FA_nom_info[len(FA_nom_info)-1][1],
  print ""