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Subject: Re: RSS feed creation?
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On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 08:22 +0100, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Dan Stromberg, 06.11.2011 21:00:
> > Is there an opensource Python tool for creating RSS feeds, that doesn't
> > require large dependencies?
> > I found feedformatter.py on pypi, but it seems a little old, and its sole
> > automated test gives a traceback.
> > Is there a better starting point?
> > (I'd of course prefer something that'll run on 3.x and 2.x, but will settle
> > for either)
> I'd just go with ElementTree and builder.py.
> http://effbot.org/zone/element-builder.htm

+1
<http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html>

RSS is just XML, just use the XML toolchain.

And use <http://validator.w3.org/feed/#validate_by_input> to check what
you create.