Week in review generator

twin.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib2, re
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup

ARTICLE_URLS = """
<PUT URLS HERE, ONE PER LINE>
""".strip().split("\n")

xml = BeautifulStoneSoup(urllib2.urlopen("http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/journals/openended"))

t = re.compile("&lt;p&gt;(.+?)&lt;/p&gt;")

for article in ARTICLE_URLS:
  for item in xml.findAll("item"):
    if article == item.guid.string.strip():
      print '<p><a href="%s"><b>%s</b></a>: %s</p>' % (
        article, item.title.string, t.match(item.description.string).groups(0)[0])