Python is a wonderful tool to learn

The tutorials at TuxRadar are really simple to follow and it is surprising how much can be done with python + gtk + webkit in just a few minutes.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#/usr/bin/python
from xml.dom import minidom
import urllib
import gtk

rss="http://www.tuxradar.com/rss"

connection=urllib.urlopen(rss)
feed=minidom.parse(connection)
connection.close()
items=feed.getElementsByTagName('item')
len(items)
item=items[0]
print item.childNodes[0].nodeName
print item.childNodes[1].nodeName
print item.childNodes[2].nodeName
print item.childNodes[3].nodeName
print item.childNodes[1].childNodes[0].data

window=gtk.Window()
window.show()
window.set_title("RSS FEED")
vbox=gtk.VBox()
window.add(vbox)
textview = gtk.TextView()
vbox.pack_start(textview)
vbox.show_all()
buffer=textview.get_buffer()
vbox.remove(textview)

combo=gtk.combo_box_new_text()
vbox.pack_start(combo, False)
for item in items:
 combo.append_text(item.childNodes[1].childNodes[0].data)
vbox.pack_start(textview)
print combo.get_active()
window.show()
vbox.show_all()
wait=raw_input()