rssgopher.py

#!/usr/local/Python-2.4/bin/python

import feedparser, html2text, os, sys
from textwrap import fill

feed = feedparser.parse("http://george.hotelling.net/index.xml")
filepath = "~/public_html/gopher"
i = 0

for entry in feed['entries']:
    i = i + 1
    text = html2text.html2text(entry['description'])
    filename = "%s/%02d-%s.txt" % (filepath, i, entry['title'])
    try:
        f = open(filename, "w")
        f.write(text)
        f.close()
    except:
        os.unlink(filename)
        sys.stderr.write("Could not write file %s" % (filename))