Raffle script

raffle.py

# A quickie raffle script that uses random.org to choose winning entries.

import urllib2

winners = 1

entries = [
    "foo",
    "bar",
    "baz",
    "quux",
    "asdf",
    "zxcv",
    "qwerty",
]

url = "https://www.random.org/sequences/?min=0&max=%d&col=1&format=plain&rnd=new" % (len(entries)-1)

data = urllib2.urlopen(url).readlines()
results = [int(x.strip()) for x in data]

print "Your winner(s) are: "
print ", ".join([entries[i] for i in results[:winners]])