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Tonight was another fun-filled episode of Clepy, our little Python group that could. I presented “Fun With RSS”, a quickie overview of RSS, feedparser, and PyRSS2Gen, plus a little bit of fun combining the two. David Stanek introduced us to IPython, the Python interactive shell on steroids.
We had some nice discussion of some […]

I set aside the time tonight to get down and funky with the feedparser.py bug about it discarding unknown elements. I poked, prodded, sliced, diced, got my hands dirty, figured out what the problem was, and fixed it–huzzah! I had just gotten done submitting my patch back to feedparser’s Sourceforge site, when I […]

My first dabbling with feedparser and PyRSS2Gen went so well that I’ve finally worked up the gumption to rewrite the code that pulls my RSS feed from LiveJournal, renders it to static HTML, and publishes it to where pirnat.com is hosted. Minus one annoying bug in feedparser (it discards unknown elements, so right now […]

I should have looked into this stuff a while ago, because it’s entirely too handy and, in a word, pythonic. I will probably rewrite my crufty home-brew LiveJournal RSS parser using Mark Pilgrim’s excellent Universal Feed Parser. Additionally, since I’m not sure if Planet allows easy filtering based on category, and I might […]