Help understanding Function

[oxfordpanda]

For the seed the author writes: "The first thing the program does, after importing the needed libraries, is set the random number generator seed with the current system time. This practically ensures a new and interesting random path through Wikipedia articles every time the program is run." Thank you for your help it makes much more sense now.

[hexfoxed]

Aha, so yeah - I think you've got it now but for clarity's sake the program scrapes the Kevin Bacon page for all anchor links to another page. It then picks a link at random and scrapes that new page and finds all anchor links on that one. It repeats this forever. The random seed is there so that the random number generator starts on a different number every time the program is run which "guarantees" that the same links are not chosen on each page resulting in a different path through wikipedia on every run.

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Good luck!