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Generate URLs for the pages containing the covers of all editions of Time Magazine
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time_magazine_covers.py
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from urllib2 import urlopen
url = '/time/magazine/current'
while 1:
url='http://www.time.com'+url
soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(url))
print url, '--', soup.find('time').renderContents()
url = soup.find(text='Previous Issue').parent['href']
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