Introduction to Python¶

SOLUTION¶

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: utf-8
import feedparser

# catch the RSS feed
url = "http://montrealpython.org/feed/" 
feed = feedparser.parse(url)

# keep the desired number of items
#items = feed['items']     # all
items = feed['items'][0:5]  # 5 last items because already sorted by .updated

# treat the selected items
reply = u"The 5 last modifications on Montréal-Python's website :" 
for i in items:
    # reply = unicode string where placeholders %s are substituted by the values in the tuple
    #reply = reply + u'\n%s : %s (%s)' % (i['link'], i['title'], i['updated'])
    reply = reply + u'\n%s : %s' % (i['link'], i['title'])

print reply

More compact, without the comments :

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
import feedparser

url = "http://montrealpython.org/feed/" 
feed = feedparser.parse(url)

items = feed['items'][0:5]  # 5 last items because already sorted by .updated

reply = u"The 5 last modifications on Montréal-Python's website :" 
for i in items:
    #reply = reply + u'\n%s : %s (%s)' % (i['link'], i['title'], i['updated'])
    reply = reply + u'\n%s : %s' % (i['link'], i['title'])

print reply

More pythonic :

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
import feedparser

url = "http://montrealpython.org/feed/" 
feed = feedparser.parse(url)

print = u"The 5 last modifications on Montréal-Python's website :" 
for e in feed.entries[:5]:
    print u'\n%s : %s' % (e.link, e.title)