from util import hook, web, text @hook.command def answer(inp): """answer -- find the answer to a question on Yahoo! Answers""" query = "SELECT Subject, ChosenAnswer, Link FROM answers.search WHERE query=@query LIMIT 1" result = web.query(query, {"query": inp.strip()}).one() short_url = web.try_isgd(result["Link"]) # we split the answer and .join() it to remove newlines/extra spaces answer_text = text.truncate_str(' '.join(result["ChosenAnswer"].split()), 80) return u'\x02{}\x02 "{}" - {}'.format(result["Subject"], answer_text, short_url)