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This code creates a simple Tornado web application that randomly fetches the content of a predefined URL and returns it.
Technology Stack : Tornado
Code Type : Web Application
Code Difficulty : Intermediate
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
import tornado.httpclient
import random
def fetch_random_url():
urls = [
"http://www.example.com",
"http://www.google.com",
"http://www.wikipedia.org",
"http://www.stackoverflow.com"
]
return random.choice(urls)
def fetch_data():
http_client = tornado.httpclient.HTTPClient()
url = fetch_random_url()
response = http_client.fetch(url)
return response.body
class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
data = fetch_data()
self.write(data)
def make_app():
return tornado.web.Application([
(r"/", MainHandler),
])
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = make_app()
app.listen(8888)
tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.current().start()