import sys from subprocess import Popen, PIPE from datetime import datetime, timedelta from min_rss_gen.generator import start_rss, gen_item import xml.etree.ElementTree FEED_LINK = 'https://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune' FEED_TITLE = 'Fortune' FEED_DESCRIPTION = 'Random, hopefully interesting, adages' NUM_ITEMS = 1 # Kodi would choke on more :( MAX_LENGTH = 69 rss_items = [] for i in range(NUM_ITEMS): with Popen(['fortune', '-s', '-n', str(MAX_LENGTH)], encoding='utf-8', stdout=PIPE) as fortune: rss_items.append(gen_item( title=fortune.stdout.read().strip().replace('\n',' ').replace('\t',' '), link=FEED_LINK, pubDate=(datetime.now()-timedelta(minutes=i)).isoformat())) rss_xml_element = start_rss( title=FEED_TITLE, link=FEED_LINK, description=FEED_DESCRIPTION, items=rss_items) sys.stdout.write(str( xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring( rss_xml_element, encoding='utf-8', method='xml'), 'utf-8'))