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I'm trying to use FeedParser to parse out Yahoo's Weather Data. I need
to capture some attribute values, but it looks like FeedParser strips
them out. Is there any way to keep them?

XML Snippet:
....
<yweather:location city="Sunnyvale" region="CA" country="US" />
....

When I try to get the value, it's empty:

>>> d = feedparser.parse('http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=94089')
>>> d.feed.yweather_location
u''

At Wednesday 10/1/2007 14:38, wrote:

> >>> d = feedparser.parse('http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=94089')
> >>> d.feed.yweather_location
>u''

You have to feed it the *contents* of the page, not its URL.


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Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL






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Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-> wrote:

> At Wednesday 10/1/2007 14:38, wrote:
>
>> >>> d =
>> >>> feedparser.parse('http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=
> 94089')
>> >>> d.feed.yweather_location
>>u''
>
> You have to feed it the *contents* of the page, not its URL.
>
>

The online documentation disagrees with you:

http://feedparser.org/docs/introduction.html


max

At Thursday 11/1/2007 12:01, Max Erickson wrote:

>Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-> wrote:
>
> > At Wednesday 10/1/2007 14:38, wrote:
> >
> >> >>> d =
> >> >>> feedparser.parse('http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=
> > 94089')
> >> >>> d.feed.yweather_location
> >>u''
> >
> > You have to feed it the *contents* of the page, not its URL.
>
>The online documentation disagrees with you:
>
>http://feedparser.org/docs/introduction.html

You're right, sorry.
Anyway this parser can't cope with attributes in custom elements -
they're just ignored. Only the contents are retained. For the
yweather namespace it's useless then, since attributes are used to
store all the information:

<yweather:location city="Sunnyvale" region="CA" country="US" />
<yweather:units temperature="F" distance="mi" pressure="in" speed="mph" />
<yweather:wind chill="47" direction="350" speed="8" />
<yweather:atmosphere humidity="38" visibility="1609"
pressure="30.02" rising="2" />

You may try a different library. A generic XML approach like
ElementTree http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm should be fine.


--
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL






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