Parse RSS feed and store it to file

rss-parse.py

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

rss_url = urlopen('http://www.dropsql.com/feed')
xml = parse(rss_url)

f = open('dropsql-feeds.txt', 'w')

# Looks for all item elements under channel tag
for item in xml.iterfind('channel/item'):
	title = item.findtext('title')
	date = item.findtext('pubDate')
	link = item.findtext('link')

	header = ('%s / %s \n' %(title, date))
	f.write(header.encode('utf-8'))
	f.write(link + '\n\n')

f.close()