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