Simon Willison’s Weblog

Sam Ruby: 2to3. Sam’s report on an attempt to port the Universal Feed Parser to Python 3.0. The 2to3 tool does most of the work, but it seems the unicode changes can be pretty tricky.

# 3rd September 2007, 1:38 am / 2to3, feedparser, python, python3, sam-ruby, unicode

Django vs feedparser on dates. Some useful tips in the comments. I find Python’s timezone stuff endlessly frustrating: I know it can do what I want, but it always takes me a ridiculously long time to figure out the necessary incantations.

# 2nd September 2007, 10:17 am / datetime, django, feedparser, python, timezones