Simple conversion from podcast subscription OPML file into Markdown text

podcast.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python
"""
Convert podcast OPML file into Markdown format suitable for blog posting
Brian Cantoni
"""

import opml
import codecs
import locale
import sys

# Wrap sys.stdout into a StreamWriter to allow writing unicode.
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdout) 

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    sys.stderr.write("Usage: podcast.py input.opml\n")
    sys.exit(1)

o = opml.parse(sys.argv[1])

print u"## %s\n" % o.title
for f in o:
    print u"[** %s **](%s) [[%s](%s)]  \n" % (f.text, f.htmlUrl, f.type, f.xmlUrl)