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edit approved Jul 20, 2014 at 14:20
Peter Mortensen
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Python 373 -> 303

ReadsIt reads the wikipediaWikipedia destination from input() (user input), and should be in the format of /wiki/dest. So, something like /wiki/Code_golf or /wiki/United_States. It also uses 1 spacesone space for the indents and http://enwp.org instead of wikipedia'sWikipedia's full URL to save bytes.

  • -50 because if it finds a broken urlURL it gets a new random urlURL.
  • -20 because it prints the title of each urlURL visited (could change title -> urlURL, but title is cleaner and actually makes my source larger).

It hangs every once and a while, and I can't figure out why. Perhaps because of Wikipedia rate limits?

I found the Boston Red Sox wikipedia pageBoston Red Sox Wikipedia page in 9 minutes 20 seconds, and the United States page in under 10 seconds, so it shouldn't take too long to find Code golfGolf...

from mechanize import*;from lxml.html import*;from random import*;a=Browser();a.set_handle_robots(0);i='http://enwp.org/Special:Random';t=input();d={};k=a.open
def f(o):
 if o!=i:d[o]=o
 if o in d:f(i)
 try:v=fromstring(k(o).read()).xpath('//div[@id="content"]//a/@href')
 except:f(i)
 print a.title()
 if t in v:k(t);print 'f';exit()
 else:f(choice(v)) if v else f(i)
f(i)

Python 373 -> 303

Reads the wikipedia destination from input() (user input), and should be in the format of /wiki/dest. So, something like /wiki/Code_golf or /wiki/United_States. It also uses 1 spaces for the indents and http://enwp.org instead of wikipedia's full URL to save bytes.

  • -50 because if it finds a broken url it gets a new random url
  • -20 because it prints the title of each url visited (could change title -> url, but title is cleaner and actually makes my source larger)

It hangs every once and a while, can't figure out why. Perhaps Wikipedia rate limits?

I found the Boston Red Sox wikipedia page in 9 minutes 20 seconds, and the United States page in under 10 seconds, so it shouldn't take too long to find Code golf...

from mechanize import*;from lxml.html import*;from random import*;a=Browser();a.set_handle_robots(0);i='http://enwp.org/Special:Random';t=input();d={};k=a.open
def f(o):
 if o!=i:d[o]=o
 if o in d:f(i)
 try:v=fromstring(k(o).read()).xpath('//div[@id="content"]//a/@href')
 except:f(i)
 print a.title()
 if t in v:k(t);print 'f';exit()
 else:f(choice(v)) if v else f(i)
f(i)

Python 373 -> 303

It reads the Wikipedia destination from input() (user input) and should be in the format of /wiki/dest. So, something like /wiki/Code_golf or /wiki/United_States. It also uses one space for the indents and http://enwp.org instead of Wikipedia's full URL to save bytes.

  • -50 because if it finds a broken URL it gets a new random URL.
  • -20 because it prints the title of each URL visited (could change title -> URL, but title is cleaner and actually makes my source larger).

It hangs every once and a while, and I can't figure out why. Perhaps because of Wikipedia rate limits?

I found the Boston Red Sox Wikipedia page in 9 minutes 20 seconds, and the United States page in under 10 seconds, so it shouldn't take too long to find Code Golf...

from mechanize import*;from lxml.html import*;from random import*;a=Browser();a.set_handle_robots(0);i='http://enwp.org/Special:Random';t=input();d={};k=a.open
def f(o):
 if o!=i:d[o]=o
 if o in d:f(i)
 try:v=fromstring(k(o).read()).xpath('//div[@id="content"]//a/@href')
 except:f(i)
 print a.title()
 if t in v:k(t);print 'f';exit()
 else:f(choice(v)) if v else f(i)
f(i)
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Python 394373 -> 324303

Reads the wikipedia destination from input() (user input), and should be in the format of /wiki/dest. So, something like /wiki/Code_golf or /wiki/United_States. It also uses 1 spaces for the indents and http://enwp.org instead of wikipedia's full URL to save bytes.

  • -50 because if it finds a broken url it gets a new random url
  • -20 because it prints the title of each url visited (could change title -> url, but title is cleaner and actually makes my source larger)

It hangs every once and a while, can't figure out why. Perhaps Wikipedia rate limits?

I found the Boston Red Sox wikipedia page in 9 minutes 20 seconds, and the United States page in under 10 seconds, so it shouldn't take too long to find Code golf...

from mechanize import*;from lxml.html import*;from random import*;a=Browser();a.set_handle_robots(0);i='http://enwp.org/Special:Random';t=input();d={};k=a.open
def f(o):
    if o!=i:d[o]=o
    if o in d:f(i)
    try:v=fromstring(k(o).read()).xpath('//div[@id="content"]//a/@href')
    except:f(i)
    print a.title()
    if t in v:k(t);print 'f';exit()
    else:f(choice(v)) if v else f(i)
f(i)

Python 394 -> 324

Reads the wikipedia destination from input() (user input), and should be in the format of /wiki/dest. So, something like /wiki/Code_golf or /wiki/United_States. It also uses 1 spaces for the indents and http://enwp.org instead of wikipedia's full URL to save bytes.

  • -50 because if it finds a broken url it gets a new random url
  • -20 because it prints the title of each url visited (could change title -> url, but title is cleaner and actually makes my source larger)

It hangs every once and a while, can't figure out why. Perhaps Wikipedia rate limits?

I found the Boston Red Sox wikipedia page in 9 minutes 20 seconds, and the United States page in under 10 seconds, so it shouldn't take too long to find Code golf...

from mechanize import*;from lxml.html import*;from random import*;a=Browser();a.set_handle_robots(0);i='http://enwp.org/Special:Random';t=input();d={};k=a.open
def f(o):
    if o!=i:d[o]=o
    if o in d:f(i)
    try:v=fromstring(k(o).read()).xpath('//div[@id="content"]//a/@href')
    except:f(i)
    print a.title()
    if t in v:k(t);print 'f';exit()
    else:f(choice(v)) if v else f(i)
f(i)

Python 373 -> 303

Reads the wikipedia destination from input() (user input), and should be in the format of /wiki/dest. So, something like /wiki/Code_golf or /wiki/United_States. It also uses 1 spaces for the indents and http://enwp.org instead of wikipedia's full URL to save bytes.

  • -50 because if it finds a broken url it gets a new random url
  • -20 because it prints the title of each url visited (could change title -> url, but title is cleaner and actually makes my source larger)

It hangs every once and a while, can't figure out why. Perhaps Wikipedia rate limits?

I found the Boston Red Sox wikipedia page in 9 minutes 20 seconds, and the United States page in under 10 seconds, so it shouldn't take too long to find Code golf...

from mechanize import*;from lxml.html import*;from random import*;a=Browser();a.set_handle_robots(0);i='http://enwp.org/Special:Random';t=input();d={};k=a.open
def f(o):
 if o!=i:d[o]=o
 if o in d:f(i)
 try:v=fromstring(k(o).read()).xpath('//div[@id="content"]//a/@href')
 except:f(i)
 print a.title()
 if t in v:k(t);print 'f';exit()
 else:f(choice(v)) if v else f(i)
f(i)
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Python 399394 -> 329324

Reads the wikipedia destination from input() (user input), and should be in the format of /wiki/dest. So, something like /wiki/Code_golf or /wiki/United_States. It also uses 1 spaces for the indents and http://enwp.org instead of wikipedia's full URL to save bytes.

  • -50 because if it finds a broken url it gets a new random url
  • -20 because it prints the title of each url visited (could change title -> url, but title is cleaner and actually makes my source larger)

It hangs every once and a while, can't figure out why. Perhaps Wikipedia rate limits?

I don't know if it will find the page in under an hour. I haven't had an hour to try it yet. If it takes longer than the allotted time, I'll edit my script...

I found the Boston Red Sox wikipedia page in 9 minutes 20 seconds, and the United States page in under 10 seconds, so it shouldn't take too long to find Code golf...

from mechanize import*;from lxml.html import*;from random import*;a=Browser();a.set_handle_robots(False0);i='http://enwp.org/Special:Random';t=input();d={};k=a.open
def f(o):
    if o!=i:d[o]=o
    if o in d:f(i)
    try:v=fromstring(a.openk(o).read()).xpath('//div[@id="content"]//a/@href')
    except:f(i)
    print a.title()
    if t in v:a.openk(t);print 'f';exit()
    else:f(choice(v)) if v else f(i)
f(i)

Python 399 -> 329

  • -50 because if it finds a broken url it gets a new random url
  • -20 because it prints the title of each url visited (could change title -> url, but title is cleaner and actually makes my source larger)

It hangs every once and a while, can't figure out why. Perhaps Wikipedia rate limits?

I don't know if it will find the page in under an hour. I haven't had an hour to try it yet. If it takes longer than the allotted time, I'll edit my script...

I found the Boston Red Sox wikipedia page in 9 minutes 20 seconds, and the United States page in under 10 seconds, so it shouldn't take too long to find Code golf...

from mechanize import*;from lxml.html import*;from random import*;a=Browser();a.set_handle_robots(False);i='http://enwp.org/Special:Random';t=input();d={}
def f(o):
    if o!=i:d[o]=o
    if o in d:f(i)
    try:v=fromstring(a.open(o).read()).xpath('//div[@id="content"]//a/@href')
    except:f(i)
    print a.title()
    if t in v:a.open(t);print 'f';exit()
    else:f(choice(v)) if v else f(i)
f(i)

Python 394 -> 324

Reads the wikipedia destination from input() (user input), and should be in the format of /wiki/dest. So, something like /wiki/Code_golf or /wiki/United_States. It also uses 1 spaces for the indents and http://enwp.org instead of wikipedia's full URL to save bytes.

  • -50 because if it finds a broken url it gets a new random url
  • -20 because it prints the title of each url visited (could change title -> url, but title is cleaner and actually makes my source larger)

It hangs every once and a while, can't figure out why. Perhaps Wikipedia rate limits?

I found the Boston Red Sox wikipedia page in 9 minutes 20 seconds, and the United States page in under 10 seconds, so it shouldn't take too long to find Code golf...

from mechanize import*;from lxml.html import*;from random import*;a=Browser();a.set_handle_robots(0);i='http://enwp.org/Special:Random';t=input();d={};k=a.open
def f(o):
    if o!=i:d[o]=o
    if o in d:f(i)
    try:v=fromstring(k(o).read()).xpath('//div[@id="content"]//a/@href')
    except:f(i)
    print a.title()
    if t in v:k(t);print 'f';exit()
    else:f(choice(v)) if v else f(i)
f(i)
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