more code cleanup and pep 8 work

app.py

@@ -11,25 +11,16 @@
 
 
 class APP(Resource):
-
     def get(self):
         return {'this is soon to become an awesome->': 'website'}
 
-
     def post(self):
-        jk = joke.getJoke()
-        jk = jk.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
-        #jk = jk.encode('utf-8')
-        return jk
+        return joke.getJoke()
 
 
 class API(Resource):
-
     def get(self):
-        jk = joke.getJoke()
-        jk = jk.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
-        # jk = jk.encode('utf-8')
-        return jk
+        return joke.getJoke()
 
 
 api.add_resource(APP, '/')

joke.py

@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import json
-from random import *
+from random import randint
 
 
-def random_digits(joke_count):
-    # Return a joke index between first and last joke in data
-    return randint(1, joke_count)
-
-def get_joke():
-    # Return random joke
+def getJoke():
+    # return a random joke loaded from the data.json
     with open('data.json') as data_file:
         data = json.load(data_file)
-    joke = data[random_digits(len(data))]
-    print joke
-    return joke
+    return data[randint(0, len(data) - 1)]