"fyleow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a student/hobbyist programmer interested in creating a web project.
I'm a student too and I've done a little Python web related stuff long ago. > It's nothing too complicated, I would like to get data from an RSS > feed and store that into a database. I want my website to get the > information from the database and display parts of it depending on the > criteria I set. That's a really easy thing to do. You're lucky because thanks to Mark Pilgrim we have one of the best RSS/Atom parsing libraries out there: http://feedparser.org/ It's quite simple: 1 - you parse the feed 2 - you take the data 3 - you display them in your html page with one of the python frameworks available. > I just finished an OO programming class in Java and I thought it would > be a good idea to do this in C# since ASP.NET makes web applications > easier than using Java (that's what I've heard anyway). It's quite right. ASP.NET is easier than JSP and J2EE stuff but Python is better to me :) > I thought it > would be easy to pick up since the language syntax is very similar but > I'm getting overwhelmed by the massive class library. MSDN docs are > very good and thorough but the language just seems a little unwieldy > and too verbose. Yeah they like in that way. A 40000+ class library and gigatons of documents. All is verbose in their static world: documents, books, languages :( > This is how to access an RSS feed and create an XML document to > manipulate it. I know the author of the RSS.NET library and I used it in the past, it can save you some machinery. But why get a bad language with a good library instead of a wonderful library and a very good language :) ? > Is Python easier than C#? IMHO yes. > Can > someone show how to access an XML document on the web and have it ready > to be manipulated for comparison? Any other advice for a newbie? Start with the examples on the feedparser homepage. Then choose a framework (Turbogears? CherryPy?) and then it's a matter of _minutes_ to have a HTML page filled with your data. -- Lawrence - http://www.oluyede.org/blog "Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have" - E. A. Chartier -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
