Curses and menus...

2006-10-04 Thread Roberto Bechtlufft
I'm trying hard to create my first useful python program: an rss reader in curses. I wrote some really ugly code to create a highlighting menu: the opprions are laid on the screen, and then pressing up and down i move a white bar to mark the item. Kind of like dialog menus. But the code is REALLY

RSS aggregator with curses and feedparser

2006-09-24 Thread Roberto Bechtlufft
Hi, I'm new around here... I'm a Python hobbyist, and I'm far from being a professional programmer, so please be patient with me... I'm working on my first Python program: a curses based RSS Aggregator. It's basically a clone of snownews, one of my very favorite programs. But I want to add some fu

Re: RSS aggregator with curses and feedparser

2006-09-24 Thread Roberto Bechtlufft
And another thing: feedparser returns the result entries as dictionaries. What's the best approach to create my cache file? I see that the cache file in liferea is an xml file. Should I try to create my own xml file based on the results from feedparser? Thanks for your help. Roberto Becht