How to parse an xml feed using python?

Question

I am trying to parse this xml (http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/top/.rss) and am having troubles doing so. I am trying to save the youtube links in each of the items, but am

Answer 1

I wrote that for you using Xpath expressions (tested successfully ):

from lxml import etree
import urllib2

headers = { 'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0' }
req = urllib2.Request('http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/top/.rss', None, headers)
reddit_file = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()

reddit = etree.fromstring(reddit_file)

for item in reddit.xpath('/rss/channel/item'):
    print "title =", item.xpath("./title/text()")[0]
    print "description =", item.xpath("./description/text()")[0]
    print "thumbnail =", item.xpath("./*[local-name()='thumbnail']/@url")[0]
    print "link =", item.xpath("./link/text()")[0]
    print "-" * 100