Help me optimize my feed script.

Thu Jun 26 15:30:31 EDT 2008

I wrote my own feed reader using feedparser.py but it takes about 14
seconds to process 7 feeds (on a windows box), which seems slow on my
DSL line. Does anyone see how I can optimize the script below? Thanks
in advance, Bill

# UTF-8
import feedparser

rss = [
'http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/alleyinsider/
silicon_alley_insider',
'http://www.techmeme.com/index.xml',
'http://feeds.feedburner.com/slate-97504',
'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/money_mostpopular.rss',
'http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech',
'http://www.aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml',
'http://ezralevant.com/atom.xml'
]
s = '<html>\n<head>\n<title>C:/x/test.htm</title>\n'

s += '<style>\n'\
     'h3{margin:10px 0 0 0;padding:0}\n'\
     'a.x{color:black}'\
     'p{margin:5px 0 0 0;padding:0}'\
     '</style>\n'

s += '</head>\n<body>\n<br />\n'

for url in rss:
	d = feedparser.parse(url)
	title = d.feed.title
	link = d.feed.link
	s += '\n<h3><a href="'+ link +'" class="x">'+ title +'</a></h3>\n'
	# aldaily.com has weird feed
	if link.find('aldaily.com') != -1:
		description = d.entries[0].description
		s += description + '\n'
	for x in range(0,3):
		if link.find('aldaily.com') != -1:
			continue
		title = d.entries[x].title
		link = d.entries[x].link
		s += '<a href="'+ link +'">'+ title +'</a><br />\n'

s += '<br /><br />\n</body>\n</html>'

f = open('c:/scripts/myFeeds.htm', 'w')
f.write(s)
f.close

print
print 'myFeeds.htm written'