This program chooses a random line from solvangud.txt and sends it as a reply to Pidgin

insult.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# This program chooses a random line from solvangud.txt and sends it as a reply to Pidgin
# Author: Ando Roots

from random import choice
import difflib
import sys
import dbus, gobject
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
import re

# Generates and returns a new insult. If baseline is defined, some semantic searching will occur.
def insult_me(baseline=None):
	file = open('solvangud.txt','r')
	lines = file.readlines()
	insult = []

	if (baseline):
		insult = difflib.get_close_matches(baseline, lines, cutoff=0.4)
	if not insult:
		return choice(lines)
	else:
		return '->' + choice(insult)
	file.close()

# This happens when Pidgin gets a (new) instant message
def new_incoming_message(account, sender, message, conversation, flags):

	clean_message = StripHTML(message.encode('utf-8'))
	msg = insult_me(clean_message)
	purple.PurpleConvImSend(purple.PurpleConvIm(conversation), msg)
	print sender + ' said something.'

# Strip out any HTML tags found in input string
def StripHTML(data):
    data = str(data)
    p = re.compile(r'<.*?>')
    return p.sub('', data).replace('n','')

# Set up the dbus listener and looping
dbus.mainloop.glib.DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
obj = bus.get_object('im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService', '/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject')
purple = dbus.Interface(obj, 'im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface')

bus.add_signal_receiver(new_incoming_message,
                        dbus_interface="im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface",
                        signal_name="ReceivedImMsg")

loop = gobject.MainLoop()
loop.run()

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