script-fu: check KG without ever leaving the command-line

[iblis]

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib, sys, xml.dom.minidom
address = 'http://www.knoxgothic.com/forum/rss.php'
document = xml.dom.minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(address))
for item in document.getElementsByTagName('item'):
    title = item.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].firstChild.data
    url = item.getElementsByTagName('link')[0].firstChild.data
    print "Title: %s" % title.encode('latin-1','replace'),
    print "URL: %s" % url.encode('latin-1','replace')

* requires installation of python
** if you copy/paste this, remember that in python, indentation is very important.

[Nephilim]

bah, browse in Lynx!

[ericmoritz]

Ah python, my favorite language.
http://xkcd.com/353/

[iblis]

Ah python, my favorite language.
http://xkcd.com/353/

Yeah. I think I was hooked from my very first from future import __blah__

IronPython just made it better. .NET under Linux using Python? For me? woot!