Universal Feed Parser - How do I keep attributes?

[snewman18]

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:
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[Gabriel Genellina]

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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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[Max Erickson]

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

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

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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