I wrote my own feed reader using feedparser.py but it takes about 14 seconds to process 7 feeds (on a windows box), which seems slow on my DSL line. Does anyone see how I can optimize the script below? Thanks in advance, Bill
# UTF-8 import feedparser rss = [ 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/alleyinsider/ silicon_alley_insider', 'http://www.techmeme.com/index.xml', 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/slate-97504', 'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/money_mostpopular.rss', 'http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech', 'http://www.aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml', 'http://ezralevant.com/atom.xml' ] s = '<html>\n<head>\n<title>C:/x/test.htm</title>\n' s += '<style>\n'\ 'h3{margin:10px 0 0 0;padding:0}\n'\ 'a.x{color:black}'\ 'p{margin:5px 0 0 0;padding:0}'\ '</style>\n' s += '</head>\n<body>\n<br />\n' for url in rss: d = feedparser.parse(url) title = d.feed.title link = d.feed.link s += '\n<h3><a href="'+ link +'" class="x">'+ title +'</a></h3>\n' # aldaily.com has weird feed if link.find('aldaily.com') != -1: description = d.entries[0].description s += description + '\n' for x in range(0,3): if link.find('aldaily.com') != -1: continue title = d.entries[x].title link = d.entries[x].link s += '<a href="'+ link +'">'+ title +'</a><br />\n' s += '<br /><br />\n</body>\n</html>' f = open('c:/scripts/myFeeds.htm', 'w') f.write(s) f.close print print 'myFeeds.htm written' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
