code: def get_articles(self, issue=''):
          	
  		
  		
  	soup = get_soup() # get soup of all articles 
  	issues = soup.find_all('ul')
  		
  	# validating and assigning default value for issue
  	if not type(issue) is int or issue < 0 :
  		issue = 1
  	if issue > len(issues):
  		issue = len(issues)		
  		
  	# considering latest article is last element 		
  	articles = issues[len(issues)-issue].find_all('a') 
  	mArticles = []
  	for article in articles:
  		mArticle = {}
  		mArticle['link'] = article.get('href')[1:]
  		mArticle['title'] = article.find('li').contents[0].strip()
  		mArticle['author'] = article.find('span').contents[0].encode('utf8')
  		mArticles.append(mArticle)
  	return mArticles
docs: Yields a list of articles from the given issue.