iowabeakster planetparser 20130715-024431

My Issues

• installing a functional tarball of my script
• all other assignment tasks resulting from the inability to make that work

I don't know where I went wrong. I followed the instructions from the assigned reading material. Things appeared to work, but the actual planetparser.py file never seemed to be present when the tarball was untarred and python setup.py install was ran (and no errors were returned in any part of the process of creation or installation).

My hack

In order to avoid turning in nothing, I did create a script that does return the title and author of the the current postings on the Fedora blog (in python of course) without any additional modules needing to be installed. It all worked testing via ssh to another computer of mine. But, I am sure my solution will probably be considered cheating (errr somthing).

Instructions

• $ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv (or use the package manager for your system)
• $ mkdir virtualenviro
• $ cd virtualenviro
• $ mkdir virt3
• $ cd virt3
• $ virtualenv virt3
• $ source virt3/bin/activate
• $ wget https://raw.github.com/iowabeakster/summertraining_test_repo/master/planetparser/planetparser.py
• $ chmod +x planetparser.py
• $ ./planetparser.py

Link

Here

Code

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib2
import sys

# get data from "The Fedora Project" blog site and set to list called data
url_for_fedora_blog = "http://planet.fedoraproject.org/rss10.xml"
data = urllib2.urlopen(url_for_fedora_blog).readlines()

# make new list called bloglist, with end characters stripped off
bloglist = [a.rstrip() for a in data]

# make another new list called bloglist_title reducing data to just blog entries
bloglist_title = []
for x in bloglist:
    if x.endswith('title>') == True:
        bloglist_title.append(str(x))

# make another new list called bloglist_tab stripping off any leading tab spaces
bloglist_tab = []
for y in bloglist_title:
    y = y.strip(' \t\n\r')
    bloglist_tab.append(str(y))

# stil more stripping of the strings, this time the leading html tags
bloglist_html_left = []
for z in bloglist_tab:
    z = z.lstrip("<title>")
    bloglist_html_left.append(str(z))

# another stripping function to remove trailing tags
bloglist_html_right = []
for i in bloglist_html_left:
    i = i[:-8]
    bloglist_html_right.append(str(i))

# finally the final list splitting and reversing the strings
# printing the final strings with the colon removed and BY added where split
bloglist_newline = []
for j in bloglist_html_right:
    k = j.split(": ")
    k.reverse()
    l = " BY ".join(k)
    print l