[Mpls-pm] Working with objects returned by functions in Inline::Python

[Ian Malpass]

I'm doing some stuff with RSS aggregation, and I'd like to use Mark
Pilgrim's 'liberal' feed parser[0] (because XML::RSS is annoying me). The
parser is written in python, but my app is built in perl. Much as I'd like
to (a) learn python and (b) rewrite the whole app, I thought I'd try to
use Inline::Python instead.

feedparser.py has a parse method, which returns an object which I *think*
is an instance of FeedParserDict. I can get feedparser loaded, and I can
call parse, but I get an Inline::Python object back which I've no idea how
to use.

The docs suggest

>> import feedparser
>> d = feedparser.parse('http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/atom.xml')
>> d['feed']['title']
>u'Sample Feed'

although it does look like d.feed.title would also work.

However, if I run the following:

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  use Inline Python => 'from feedparser import parse';
  $f = parse("http://www.indecorous.com/golb/golb.rss");
  print $f->feed();

I get "Attempted to call non-method 'feed'".

I've tried importing the class FeedParserDict too but that hasn't helped.

So, how do I access the results of calling parse?

Thanks,

Ian

[0] <http://feedparser.org/>

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