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GermainZ

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Registered: 2013-05-08

Posts: 11

Python script that displays new ML/RSS items since last upgrade.

Hi everyone,

I've written a Python script that fetches new items from mailing lists/RSS feeds since the last upgrade. It then displays them as a list, allowing you to expand each item on its own.
It's not meant to be a pacman wrapper - it simply displays information, nothing more. I personally use it before upgrading to check anything I might have missed. You can add multiple MLs/RSS feeds to check, and some BBCode tags (e.g. code, quotes) will cause the text to show in different colors for easier reading.
I'm still a Python newbie, so comments and feedback are very welcome.

Screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/Z8JADxS.png
http://i.imgur.com/3C4BvHQ.png
http://i.imgur.com/4ihN2nr.png

Gist:
https://gist.github.com/GermainZ/5620946

Dependencies:
python2-feedparser, python2-dateutil

Thanks

Last edited by GermainZ (2013-05-21 16:24:20)

jrussell

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From: Cape Town, South Africa

Registered: 2012-08-16

Posts: 510

Re: Python script that displays new ML/RSS items since last upgrade.

Thats really cool! Ive been wanting to make a sort of pacmatic like wrapper for pacman in python, I started working on somthing like this but this looks much better than what I had

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