The robot.py program from the original gist can be run by requesting:
https://www.pythonanywhere.com/gists/5502596/robot.py/ipython3/
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| import os | |
| import subprocess | |
| def get_google_news_homepage(): | |
| print("this will fetch the current google news home page as text.") | |
| print("it will use the requests and lxml libaries") | |
| print("press enter to continue") | |
| input() | |
| import requests | |
| from lxml import html | |
| page_raw = requests.get('http://www.news.google.com').content | |
| parsed = html.fromstring(page_raw) | |
| print( | |
| '\n'.join( | |
| line for line in | |
| parsed.cssselect('body')[0].text_content().split('\n') | |
| if "{" not in line and ";" not in line and "}" not in line | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| print("phew! what a lot of news... and *so* readable in this format!") | |
| print("check out out show_batteries_included next? or maybe type '?' to see IPython's help?") | |
| def show_batteries_included(python_version=2.7): | |
| if python_version not in (2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4): | |
| return "only pythons 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 'mafraid" | |
| print(subprocess.check_output(["/usr/local/bin/pip" + str(python_version), "freeze"]).decode("utf-8")) | |
| def schemers_easter_egg(): | |
| get_ipython().system(u'guile') |
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| import sys | |
| import time | |
| def print_with_pause(some_text=''): | |
| print(some_text) | |
| sys.stdout.flush() | |
| time.sleep(0.6) | |
| print("\n") | |
| for _ in range(5): | |
| print(".", end="") | |
| sys.stdout.flush() | |
| time.sleep(0.3) | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print("Hello, World!") | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause("I am a Gist console on PythonAnywhere") | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause("I am running the code from a gist stored on github") | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause( | |
| "Why would you want me? Well, maybe you want to share a bit of " | |
| "code with someone, but you also want them to be able to try it out in " | |
| "a console" | |
| ) | |
| print_with_pause("You might use it to post solutions to StackOverflow questions for example..") | |
| print_with_pause("Or maybe you've written a mini-library you want to show off on your website") | |
| print_with_pause("Or a tutorial perhaps... who knows?") | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause( | |
| "I am running in a fairly fully-featured linux sandbox. There's a filesystem..." | |
| ) | |
| print_with_pause("Here is os.listdir('.') and os.listdir('/')") | |
| import os | |
| print_with_pause(os.listdir('.')) | |
| print_with_pause(os.listdir('/')) | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause( | |
| "I can access the Internet (via a proxy server with a whitelist)..." | |
| ) | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause( | |
| "And I can access all the pre-installed modules supported by PythonAnywhere" | |
| ) | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause( | |
| "When I finish loading the default code from the gist, I leave the user " | |
| "in interactive mode so they can play around" | |
| ) | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause( | |
| "Try me now! You're in an IPython shell, so things will tab-complete" | |
| ) | |
| print_with_pause( | |
| "Here's a few functions I'm making available to you\n" | |
| " get_google_news_homepage()\n" | |
| " show_batteries_included(python_version=2.7)\n" | |
| " schemers_easter_egg()\n" | |
| ) | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause() | |
| print_with_pause( | |
| "And check the info bar on the left for instructions on how to make your own Gist consoles" | |
| ) | |
| from extra_functions import get_google_news_homepage, show_batteries_included, schemers_easter_egg | |
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