Request: International Viewpoint

[ricardoff]

http://www.internationalviewpoint.or...p?page=backend

I just can't make it work. I tried to make it get the print versions but couldn't. I'm a newbie.

Any help is welcome!

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by ricardoff

http://www.internationalviewpoint.or...p?page=backend

I just can't make it work. I tried to make it get the print versions but couldn't. I'm a newbie.

Any help is welcome!

Post what you've tried and how it failed if you want specific help on specific issues.

[ricardoff]

This is what I tried to do:

RSS: http://www.internationalviewpoint.or...p?page=backend

Article: http://www.internationalviewpoint.or...hp?article2242

Print version: http://www.internationalviewpoint.or...d_article=2242

Code I used:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1313445974(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'International Viewpoint'
    oldest_article = 90
    max_articles_per_feed = 100

    feeds          = [(u'Articles', u'http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=backend')]

def print_version(self, url):
      return url.replace('http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article', 'http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=print_article&id_article=')

Why isn't it working? It gets the articles, but then it'll show links etc. and not the entire article.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by ricardoff

This is what I tried to do:

RSS: http://www.internationalviewpoint.or...p?page=backend

Article: http://www.internationalviewpoint.or...hp?article2242

Print version: http://www.internationalviewpoint.or...d_article=2242

Code I used:

Why isn't it working? It gets the articles, but then it'll show links etc. and not the entire article.

If you post your code inside CODE tags (the hash/pound sign button) we can see your code and all indents. Inside QUOTE tags causes MR to strip the indents. As a moderator, I can edit your post to see the original indents, and I can see that you haven't indented
def print_version(self, url):
So that code is outside the
class AdvancedUserRecipe1313445974(BasicNewsRecipe):
and is never run.
Indent it the same amount as
title = u'International Viewpoint'
and indent everything below it the same additional amount.

[ricardoff]

Thank you very much! I don't know what indent means but I'll look it up!

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by ricardoff

Thank you very much! I don't know what indent means but I'll look it up!

It means to put spaces in front of the lines of text and move them to the right, like this:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1313445974(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'International Viewpoint'
    oldest_article = 90
    max_articles_per_feed = 100

    feeds          = [(u'Articles', u'http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=backend')]

    def print_version(self, url):
        return url.replace('http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article', 'http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=print_article&id_article=')

[PeterT]

Unlike many programming tools that use BEGIN / END or { } to group together sections of code, Python uses spaces or indentation to make the same sections of code.

So for instance C might do

printf("before if\n");
if ( a == 0) {
  printf("a is zero\n");
} else {
  printf("a is non zero\n");
}
printf("end of if\n");

Python would do

print "before if"
if a == 0:
  print "a is zero"
else:
  print "a is not zero"
print "after if"

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Unlike many programming tools that use BEGIN / END or { } to group together sections of code, Python uses spaces or indentation to make the same sections of code.

And to explain further: In the case of a recipe, the print_version code has to be part of the AvancedUserRecipe group of code ("class"). The originally posted recipe had def print version at the same level of indent as AvancedUserRecipe, so it wasn't part of the recipe class and wasn't being processed. It was being ignored.

[ricardoff]

Well, just for the record, it's working like a charm now! Maybe some improvements are possible, but it suits me. Thank you all!

class AdvancedUserRecipe1313445974(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'International Viewpoint 4'
    oldest_article = 90
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    
    feeds          = [(u'Articles', u'http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=backend')]

    def print_version(self, url):
          return url.replace('http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article', 'http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=print_article&id_article=')

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by ricardoff

Well, just for the record, it's working like a charm now!

Great! And thanks for posting in CODE tags.