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news_ticker.py
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#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Copyright 2016 British Broadcasting Corporation and Contributors(1)
#
# (1) Contributors are listed in the AUTHORS file (please extend AUTHORS,
# not this header)
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
#
import feedparser
import time
from iotoy.deviceproxy import serial_io, DeviceProxy
io = serial_io("/dev/ttyACM1", 19200, debug=False)
mb = DeviceProxy(device=io)
mb.introspect_device()
io.dotimeout = False
mb.cleardisplay()
source = feedparser.parse("http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml")
for entry in source["entries"]:
item = str(entry["title"])
item = item.replace("VIDEO: ","")
item = item.replace("In pictures: ","")
item = " "+ item + "----"
print item
mb.scrollstring(item.upper())