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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from urllib import urlencode
from urllib2 import urlopen

URL = 'http://refactormycode.com/'
TINYURL = 'http://tinyurl.com/apicreate.php?%s'
ISGD = 'http://is.gd/api.php?%s'

def tiny_url(url):
    """ Query a Tinyurl service, if not available query an alternative one
        If the alternative service is not available, return the url """ 
    try:
        url = urlopen(ISGD % urlencode({'longurl':url})).read()
    except:
        url = urlopen(TINYURL % urlencode({'url':url})).read()
    finally:
        return url

print tiny_url(URL)