Fun With Mac and 'say'

This is officially what happens when a geek gets bored. A friend of mine was over tonight, and he showed me the 'say' utility on Mac OSX. Well, you can imagine where this went. Say no more:

#/usr/bin/env python

from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint as n2cp
import re
import urllib2
import os
import time
import string

class HTMLDecode(object):
    '''http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4569
       There is absolutely no reason for this to be in a class. I just put it in one.
    '''
    __slots__ = ['substitute_entity','dcdhtmlent']
    def substitute_entity(self, match):
        ent = match.group(3)
        if match.group(1) == "#":
            if match.group(2) == '':
                return unichr(int(ent))
            elif match.group(2) == 'x':
                return unichr(int('0x'+ent, 16))
        else:
            cp = n2cp.get(ent)
            if cp:
                return unichr(cp)
            else:
                return match.group()

    def dcdhtmlent(self, string):
        entity_re = re.compile(r'&(#?)(x?)(\w+);')
        return entity_re.subn(self.substitute_entity, string)[0]

class SpeakFarkHeadlines(object):
    '''This is what happens when you are bored and/or easily amused.'''
    __slots__ = ['headlines','speak']
    def __init__(self):
        self.headlines = []
        dcdr = HTMLDecode()
        response = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.fark.com')
        headline_re = re.compile(r'<span\sclass="headline">(.*?)</span>')
        while True:
            try:
                search = re.search(headline_re, dcdr.dcdhtmlent(response.next().encode('UTF-8')))
                if search:
                    self.headlines.append(search.group(1))
            except StopIteration:
                break

    def speak(self):
        for entry in self.headlines:
            print entry         # Below is nasty hack for shell string scanning and quotes
            os.popen('say \'%s\'' % string.replace(entry, '\'', ''))
            time.sleep(5)

app = SpeakFarkHeadlines()
app.speak()

Now just sit back and have a good chuckle.