Added some stuff, deleted some stuff, modified some stuff

Code/irc/acronymFinder.py

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+import urllib
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import random
+
+
+(userId,token) = open("/home/krowbar/.secret/s4token").readline().rstrip().split(',')
+
+def get_acros(word):
+  acros = []
+  url = "http://www.stands4.com/services/v2/abbr.php?uid=%s&tokenid=%s&term=%s" % (userId, token, word)
+  soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(url).read(), 'html5lib')
+  results = soup.find_all('result')
+  #there are lots of cases where the same definition is repeated multiple times under different categories. this is dumb so we should do a little more work
+  defs = []
+  for r in results:
+      rdef = r.find('definition').text
+      match = next((x for x in defs if x['definition'] == rdef), None)
+      if match is not None:
+          #if we find a match, add the category to the existing categories and increase the score
+          match['categories'].append(((r.find('parentcategoryname').text + '\\') if r.find('parentcategoryname') else '') + r.find('categoryname').text)
+          match['score'] = str(float(match['score']) + float(r.find('score').text))
+      else: #add a new item
+          defs.append({\
+                  'term': r.find('term').text,\
+                  'definition': r.find('definition').text,\
+                  'categories': [((r.find('parentcategoryname').text + '\\') if r.find('parentcategoryname') else '') + r.find('categoryname').text],\
+                  'score': r.find('score').text\
+                  });
+
+  for d in sorted(defs, key=lambda x:float(x['score']), reverse=True):
+      #print d;
+      acros.append(("%s: \"%s\" (%s, score: %s)" % \
+              (d['term'], d['definition'], ', '.join(d['categories']), d['score'])\
+              ).encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
+  return acros