Random update of various things

Code/irc/tumblr.py

@@ -7,17 +7,25 @@ def tumble(url):
   #Find the max pages
   soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(url).read(), 'html.parser')
   pages = soup.findAll('span', 'page-numbers')[0].text.split('/')[1] #this could totally fail several ways
-  page = random.randrange(1, int(pages)+1)
+  tries = 3
+  while True:
+    try:
+      page = random.randrange(1, int(pages)+1)
 
-  #Parse a page
-  soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(url + '/page/' + str(page)).read(), 'html.parser')
-  article = random.choice(soup.findAll('article'))
-  quote = article.find('blockquote').text.replace('\n','');
-  if len(article.find('footer').findAll('ul')) > 1:
-       quote += re.sub('\n+', ' ', article.find('footer').findAll('ul')[0].text); #the hash tags
-       quote += '(' + re.sub('\n+', ' ', article.find('footer').findAll('ul')[1].text) + ')'; #and the date and notes
-  else:
-       quote += '(' + re.sub('\n+', ' ', article.find('footer').findAll('ul')[0].text) + ')'; #just the date and notes
-
-  return quote.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+      #Parse a page
+      soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(url + '/page/' + str(page)).read(), 'html.parser')
+      article = random.choice(soup.findAll('article'))
+      quote = article.find('blockquote').text.replace('\n','');
+      if len(article.find('footer').findAll('ul')) > 1:
+           quote += re.sub('\n+', ' ', article.find('footer').findAll('ul')[0].text); #the hash tags
+           quote += '(' + re.sub('\n+', ' ', article.find('footer').findAll('ul')[1].text) + ')'; #and the date and notes
+      else:
+           quote += '(' + re.sub('\n+', ' ', article.find('footer').findAll('ul')[0].text) + ')'; #just the date and notes
 
+      return quote.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+    except: #sometimes we fail. let's retry a few times
+      if tries == 0:
+          return ''
+      else:
+          tries -= 1
+    break