xml.etree.ElementTree

iterfind .... findtext

from urllib.request import urlopen from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse

Download the RSS feed and parse it

u = urlopen('http://planet.python.org/rss20.xml') doc = parse(u)

Extract and output tags of interest

for item in doc.iterfind('channel/item'): title = item.findtext('title') date = item.findtext('pubDate') link = item.findtext('link')

print(title)
print(date)
print(link)
print()

e.text e.get e.tag

doc <xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree object at 0x101339510> e = doc.find('channel/title') e <Element 'title' at 0x10135b310> e.tag 'title' e.text 'Planet Python' e.get('some_attribute')