old_contents: import os, logging, json
  from flask import Flask, request, render_template, jsonify
  from flask_restplus import Api
  from flask_ask import Ask, statement
  import requests
  
  from public import input
  
  app = Flask(__name__)
  
  ROOT_URL = os.getenv('ROOT_URL', 'localhost')
  VERSION_NO = os.getenv('VERSION_NO', '1.0')
  APP_NAME = os.getenv('APP_NAME', "Devil's Advocate")
  DEBUG = os.getenv('DEBUG', False)
  SENTIMENT_URL = os.getenv("SENTIMENT_URL", "https://ns3-sentiment.herokuapp.com/")
  SENTIMENT_ENDPOINT = os.getenv("SENTIMENT_ENDPOINT", 'api/v1/parse')
  ACQUIRE_URL = os.getenv("SENTIMENT_URL", "https://ns3-acquire.herokuapp.com/")
  ACQUIRE_ENDPOINT = os.getenv("ACQUIRE_ENDPOINT", 'Public/articles/')
  print APP_NAME, VERSION_NO
  # api = Api(app, version=VERSION_NO, title=APP_NAME)
  
  ask = Ask(app, '/alexa')
  logging.getLogger('flask_ask').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
  
  
  @ask.intent('Hello')
  def startup():
      text = render_template('start')
      return statement(text)
  
  def create_coherent_list(claim_arr):
      converted = [claim.encode('ascii', 'ignore') for claim in claim_arr]
      if len(converted) == 0:
          return "nothing"
      elif len(converted) == 1:
          return converted[0]
      to_say = ', '.join(converted[:-1])
      to_say += 'and ' + converted[-1]
      return to_say
  
  MAX_ARTICLES = 3
  
  @ask.intent("GetNews")
  def get_news(topic):
      articles = requests.get(ACQUIRE_URL + ACQUIRE_ENDPOINT + topic)
      print topic, articles
      response = articles.json()
      to_say = []
  
      for index, article in enumerate(response):
          if index > MAX_ARTICLES:
              break
          claim_params = {
              'article': article
          }
          claim = requests.post(SENTIMENT_URL + SENTIMENT_ENDPOINT, data=json.dumps(claim_params))
          to_say.append(claim.json()[0])
      sentence = create_coherent_list(to_say)
      return statement(render_template('news', topic=topic, opinion=sentence))
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      app.run()
      
new_contents: import os, logging, json
  from flask import Flask, request, render_template, jsonify
  from flask_restplus import Api
  from flask_ask import Ask, statement
  import requests
  
  from public import input
  
  app = Flask(__name__)
  
  ROOT_URL = os.getenv('ROOT_URL', 'localhost')
  VERSION_NO = os.getenv('VERSION_NO', '1.0')
  APP_NAME = os.getenv('APP_NAME', "Devil's Advocate")
  DEBUG = os.getenv('DEBUG', False)
  SENTIMENT_URL = os.getenv("SENTIMENT_URL", "https://ns3-sentiment.herokuapp.com/")
  SENTIMENT_ENDPOINT = os.getenv("SENTIMENT_ENDPOINT", 'api/v1/parse')
  ACQUIRE_URL = os.getenv("SENTIMENT_URL", "https://ns3-acquire.herokuapp.com/")
  ACQUIRE_ENDPOINT = os.getenv("ACQUIRE_ENDPOINT", 'Public/articles/')
  print APP_NAME, VERSION_NO
  # api = Api(app, version=VERSION_NO, title=APP_NAME)
  
  ask = Ask(app, '/alexa')
  logging.getLogger('flask_ask').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
  
  
  @ask.intent('Hello')
  def startup():
      text = render_template('start')
      return statement(text)
  
  def create_coherent_list(claim_arr):
      converted = [claim.encode('ascii', 'ignore') for claim in claim_arr]
      if len(converted) == 0:
          return "nothing"
      elif len(converted) == 1:
          return converted[0]
      to_say = ', '.join(converted[:-1])
      to_say += 'and ' + converted[-1]
      return to_say
  
  MAX_ARTICLES = 3
  
  @ask.intent("GetNews")
  def get_news(topic):
      url = ACQUIRE_URL + ACQUIRE_ENDPOINT + topic
      articles = requests.get(url)
      print topic, articles, url
      response = articles.json()
      to_say = []
  
      for index, article in enumerate(response):
          if index > MAX_ARTICLES:
              break
          claim_params = {
              'article': article
          }
          claim = requests.post(SENTIMENT_URL + SENTIMENT_ENDPOINT, data=json.dumps(claim_params))
          to_say.append(claim.json()[0])
      sentence = create_coherent_list(to_say)
      return statement(render_template('news', topic=topic, opinion=sentence))
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      app.run()
      
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