Pull Request for SoftDes17

TextMining.py

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+#Victor Bianchi - Software Design - Fall 2017
+#Mini-Project #3
+#Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text
+#not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at ‘Philosophy’.
+
+import urllib
+import sys
+from urllib.request import urlopen
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+user_choice = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])
+if user_choice == '':
+	start = input("Please enter the name of the first article (leave blank for random) : ")
+	link = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + start
+else: #choose random page
+	link = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random"
+url = urllib.request.urlopen(link)
+
+visited_urls = []
+current = ""
+goal = "Philosophy"
+steps = 0
+print ('\n' + start + '\n -->')
+while (current != goal):
+	BS  = BeautifulSoup(url, "lxml")
+	link = BS.find("div", {"id":"mw-content-text"})
+	path = link.find("p").find_all("a")
+
+	for links in path:
+		if (str(links.get("title")) == "None" or (str(links.get("title")) == path)):
+			pass
+		else:
+			z = str(links.get("title"))
+			if (len(z.split()) >= 2):
+				name = ''
+				for current in range(len(z.split())):
+					name += z.split()[current]
+					if (current != (len(z.split())-1)):
+						name += "_"
+				z = name
+
+			next_link = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + z
+
+			#print next_link
+			current = str(links.get("title"))
+			visited_urls.append(current)
+			print (current)
+			steps += 1
+			if (current != goal):
+				print (" --> ")
+			if (steps == 50 ):
+				print ("This is taking too long. I quit")
+				sys.exit(1)
+			url = urllib.request.urlopen(next_link)
+			break
+print ('\nTo get from ' + start + ' to ' + goal + ', it took %i clicks.' %steps)