Python and RSS feeds - parse feeder

Question

I'm using feed parser in python and I'm a beginner in python.

for post in d.entries:
    if test_word3 and test_word2 in post.title:
        print(post.title)

What I'm trying to do is make feed parser find a couple of words inside titles in the RSS feeds.

can you tell us what the INPUT is and what the OUTPUT should be? — Mike Tung, Sep 16 '16 at 13:54
Use `and`, not `&&`. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2485466/pythons-equivalent-of-in-an-if-statement — Frangipanes, Sep 16 '16 at 14:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 19 '16 at 18:26

Note that and does not distribute across the in operator.

if test_word3 in post.title and
   test_word2 in post.title:

should solve your problem. What you wrote is evaluated as

if test_word3 and (test_word2 in post.title):

... and this turns into ...

if (test_word3 != "") and (test_word2 in post.title):

Simplifying a little ... The Boolean value of a string is whether it's non-empty. The Boolean value of an integer is whether it's non-zero.

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