# Snippler - getCode()
# snipplr
# Author : Abhinay Omkar

import re,urllib2,sys

# input url = "http://snipplr.com/view/8/ajax-edit-in-place/"
try:
	inurl = sys.argv[1]
except:
	print "Err: url is missing."
	sys.exit()
try:
	path = sys.argv[2]
except: 
	path = inurl.split('/')[-2]

num = re.sub(r'[a-zA-Z/:\-.]*','',inurl)

url = "http://snipplr.com/view.php?codeview&id="+num

raw = repr(urllib2.urlopen(url).read())
prog = re.compile(r'<textarea rows="25">(.*)</textarea>').search(raw).group()
open

prog = prog.replace('\\r\\n','\n').replace('\\t','    ')[20:-11]
print "File "+path+" Opened..."
print prog
open(path,'w').write(prog)

snipplr :: getCode()

python

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