Comments on: Moving to del.icio.us, part 4

By: Gary Fleming

Gary Fleming — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the future :P

Need to take a look at storing via urls and names, because it’s the one thing that really bugs me just now. People deserve the credit.

Also, make sure you have a good get out strategy that you keep up to date. Though I’m sure del.icio.us wouldn’t screw over its users, no point in taking chances with our data.

By: deepak

deepak — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Shouldn’t you be reusing your old fetched posts in case a call to del.icio.us returns a ‘service unavailable’ or something like that?

if len(out):
  fp = open('/var/www/kryogenix.org/scripts/index.curlies.cached','w')
  fp.write('\n'.join(out))
  fp.close()

By: sil

sil — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Deepak: yes. Actually, if it throws an error then it should be OK, because xmltramp.parse will die (as the input is not XML) and therefore we never get as far as writing the file. However, you are completely right, and cheers, except that I use “if out:” rather than “if len(out):“. Thanks!