1.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     1.2 +++ b/sayings.py	Sat Jan 18 20:06:19 2014 +0100
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     1.4 +from random import shuffle
     1.5 +
     1.6 +def get_saying():
     1.7 +    sayings = [('The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters', '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
     1.8 +    ("Beautiful is better than ugly.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
     1.9 +    ("Explicit is better than implicit.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.10 +    ("Simple is better than complex.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.11 +    ("Complex is better than complicated.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.12 +    ("Flat is better than nested.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.13 +    ("Sparse is better than dense.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.14 +    ("Readability counts.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.15 +    ("Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.16 +    ("Although practicality beats purity.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.17 +    ("Errors should never pass silently.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.18 +    ("Unless explicitly silenced.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.19 +    ("In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.20 +    ("Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.21 +    ("Now is better than never.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.22 +    ("Although never is often better than *right* now.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.23 +    ("If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.24 +    ("If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.25 +    ("Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),
    1.26 +    ]
    1.27 +
    1.28 +    shuffle(sayings)
    1.29 +
    1.30 +    saying, author = sayings[0]
    1.31 +    return saying, author