Fun with feedparser

24 Jan 2008

If you’re trying to parse RSS feeds in python, feedparser is generally a nice little library. However, whenever you pass it something like AT&T, no matter if you escape the & in the middle or not (as you should do in HTML), it thinks you’ve not closed your escape tag, so turns it into AT&T for you. This has cost me an afternoon – insert angry face here. Time to file a bug report I think.