Extract the first paragraph from a Wikipedia article (Python)

Question

How can I extract the first paragraph from a Wikipedia article, using Python?

For example, for Albert Einstein, that would be:

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Answer 1

What I did is this:

import urllib
import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

article= "Albert Einstein"
article = urllib.quote(article)

opener = urllib2.build_opener()
opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')] #wikipedia needs this

resource = opener.open("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + article)
data = resource.read()
resource.close()
soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
print soup.find('div',id="bodyContent").p