RSS aggregator with curses and feedparser

[James Graham]

Roberto Bechtlufft wrote:
> And another thing: feedparser returns the result entries as
> dictionaries. What's the best approach to create my cache file? I see
> that the cache file in liferea is an xml file. Should I try to create
> my own xml file based on the results from feedparser?

Well you could do, using elementtree or whatever but there's no 
particular reason to use XML over anything else. It's semi-human 
readable which is nice but, if you're just serializing dicts some json 
library (e.g. [1]) might do all you need out of the box. Alternatively, 
if you don't care about the local format being human-readable, you could 
simply use the built-in pickle module to save your state.

> Thanks for your help.

(note that people tend to dislike top posting because, as you can see, 
it tends to screw up the order of replies).

> Roberto Bechtlufft wrote:
>
>> A question: how do I tell my program that a certain entry was/wasn't
>> downloaded yet? Should I use the date or link tag of the entry?
> 
Assuming the feed is atom, you want to look at the entry's GUID to 
determine whether you have already downloaded it. That may also work for 
RSS feeds although I'm not sure how well RSS feeds in the wild stick to 
the "Globally Unique" part of GUID... but this is more of a feed 
handling question than a python one.

[1] http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/python-json/