RssFeed.py

import xmltodict
from urllib.request import urlopen

class RssFeed(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self, url):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.url = url

    name = "undefined"
    items = []

    def set_name(self, text):
        self.name = text

    def run(self):
        self.start = time.time()
        data = urlopen(self.url).read().decode('utf-8')
        self.d = xmltodict.parse(data)
        self.end = time.time()
        self.diff = self.end - self.start
        if __debug__:
            logging.info("{:.3f}".format(self.diff) + " s\t" + self.url)
        self.items = self.d['rss']['channel']['item']