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Python RSS tutorials

7th September 2002

Spotted on Python owns us: Fredrik Lundh is building an RSS newsreader in Python, and writing Python tutorials on the project as he goes along. The first tutorial, Fetching RSS Files, is available now and covers (in detail) retrieving RSS files over the web, including an excellent explanation of asynchronous HTTP requests.

Posted 7th September 2002 at 2:11 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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