I am writing a program based on random writing levels

Here is my code:

import random
from urllib.request import urlopen

def random_seed(level, text):
'''Returns a random seed string that is the same length as level from text.
   If level >= the length of text an error is raised (hint see assert).
   Example:
      random_seed(2, 'carp') would return ONE of the following: 'ca', 'ar', or 'rp'
'''

with urlopen('http://ift.tt/1W1xiy1') as req:
raw_html = req.read()
raw_html = raw_html.decode()

result = random_seed(2, 'http://ift.tt/1W1xiy1') print(result)

def get_chars_following(seed, text):
'''Given a seed and the text, return a list of all the characters that directly
   follow the seed in text.  If there are none, then an empty list is returned.
   If using regular expressions for this be careful about characters in the seed
   that are special in regular expressions.
   Example usage:
      get_chars_following('th', 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.') returns ['e', 's', 'a']
'''

def random_write(level, text, max_num_chars=40): '''Returns (does NOT print) max_num_chars number of randomly generated characters using the specified level analysis from text as follows: 1) Create a result string that is the empty string 2) Your program should pick level consecutive characters at random from text and use them as the initial seed. 3) Repeat the following max_num_chars times: 3.1) Make a list of every character that follows the seed in the text If that list is empty, then pick another random seed as described in Step 2 above 3.2) Randomly pick a character c from the text 3.3) Add c to the result string 3.4) Remove the first character from the seed and append c to seed '''

def get_from_file(filename):
'''Returns as a string the entire contents of the specified file.
   You need not handle the case of the file not existing.
'''

def get_from_url(url):
'''Fetches the page at the specified url and returns its contents
   as a plain (non-bytes) string.
   You need not handle the case of the url not existing or being invalid.
'''

def merge_texts(text_specs_list):
'''Takes a list of lists (of size 2).  The nested lists are of the
   format [string, TextType]. See below for class TextType.
   If the TextType is raw, then the string is the text.
   If the TextType is file, then the string is the name of a file to read.
   If the TextType is url, then the string is a url to read from.
   This function will combine all the texts into a single string and return it.
   Examples:
       merge_texts([["Fee fi fo fum", TextType.raw]]) returns 'Fee fi fo fum'
       merge_texts([["One fish, ", TextType.raw], ["Two fish", TextType.raw]]) returns 'One fish, Two fish'
       merge_texts([['Mitch Hedberg Jokes\n', TextType.raw], ['http://ift.tt/1TE6aRB', TextType.url]])
          returns 'Mitch Hedberg Jokes\nMy fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.\r\n\r\nFettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.\r\n'           
'''

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DO NOT CHANGE ANY CODE BELOW HERE

from enum import Enum

Here we are simply creating an enumerated type.

That is, we can now use TextType.raw and TextType.url as values in our program.

This is used by the merge_texts function above.

See http://ift.tt/1sRIgFZ for the Python docs on enumerated types.

class TextType(Enum): raw = 1 file = 2 url = 3

end class TextType

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