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Update: See [[!Category:argparse]]
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Latest revision as of 13:38, 26 October 2011

Update: See argparse

#!/usr/bin/env python

from optparse import OptionParser
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-u", "--url", dest="url", default="http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml", help="the url to read from")
parser.add_option("-n", "--numlines", type="int", dest="num", default=1000, help="how many lines to display")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

import feedparser
feed = feedparser.parse(options.url)
for e in feed.entries[:options.num]:
    print e.title.encode("utf-8")
#!/usr/bin/env python

from optparse import OptionParser
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-u", "--url", dest="url", default="http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml", help="the url to read from")
parser.add_option("-n", "--numlines", type="int", dest="num", default=1000, help="how many lines to display")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

import feedparser
feed = feedparser.parse(options.url)
for e in feed.entries[:options.num]:
    print e.title.encode("utf-8")