Re: [Tutor] help writing functions

2012-02-24 Thread Wayne Werner
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Saad Javed wrote: I am learning python and need guidance for writing some code. I've written a simple program (with pointers from people) that parses an tv show xml feed and prints their values in plain text after performing some string operations. Unless you're really i

Re: [Tutor] help writing functions

2012-02-23 Thread Saad Javed
Sorry for the formatting. Added return statements to both functions. Adding return [x, y] to get_value func. That solved the problem. Thank you! :) Saad On Thursday, February 23, 2012, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 23/02/12 00:59, Saad Javed wrote: > > [CODE]feed = urllib.urlopen(rssPage) #rssPage: ad

Re: [Tutor] help writing functions

2012-02-23 Thread Alan Gauld
On 23/02/12 00:59, Saad Javed wrote: [CODE]feed = urllib.urlopen(rssPage) #rssPage: address of xml feed tree = etree.parse(feed) x = tree.xpath("/rss/channel/item/title/text()") x = str(x[0]) for tag in tags: #tags is a list of items like hdtv, xvid, 720p etc x = re.sub(r'\b' + tag + r'\b', '',

Re: [Tutor] help writing functions

2012-02-22 Thread Andreas Perstinger
On 2012-02-23 01:59, Saad Javed wrote: I am learning python and need guidance for writing some code. I've written a simple program (with pointers from people) that parses an tv show xml feed and prints their values in plain text after performing some string operations. [CODE]feed = urllib.urlope