peter@146: from flask.ext.babel import gettext as _
peter@141: from random import shuffle
peter@141: 
peter@141: def get_saying():
peter@146:     sayings = [(_('The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters'), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Beautiful is better than ugly."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Explicit is better than implicit."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Simple is better than complex."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Complex is better than complicated."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Flat is better than nested."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Sparse is better than dense."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Readability counts."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Although practicality beats purity."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Errors should never pass silently."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Unless explicitly silenced."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Now is better than never."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Although never is often better than *right* now."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea."), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@146:                (_("Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!"), _('__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python')),
peter@144:                ]
peter@144:     
peter@141:     shuffle(sayings)
peter@144:     
peter@141:     saying, author = sayings[0]
peter@141:     return saying, author