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Political news from USA

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			  #!/usr/bin/env  python
# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
politico.com
'''

import re, traceback

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Politico(BasicNewsRecipe):

    title                 = 'Politico'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic and Sujata Raman'
    description           = 'Political news from USA'
    publisher             = 'Capitol News Company, LLC'
    category              = 'news, politics, USA'
    oldest_article        = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    use_embedded_content  = False
    no_stylesheets        = True
    remove_javascript     = True
    encoding              = 'UTF-8'
    language = 'en'

    html2lrf_options = [
                          '--comment', description
                        , '--category', category
                        , '--publisher', publisher
                        , '--ignore-tables'
                        ]

    html2epub_options = 'publisher="' + publisher + '"\ncomments="' + description + '"\ntags="' + category + '"\nlinearize_tables=True'

    remove_tags       = [
                         dict(name=['notags','embed','object','link','img']),
                         ]

    extra_css = '''
                body{font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;}
                element.style{color:#FF0000;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;}
                .author{color:#808080;font-size:x-small;}
                a{ color:#003399;}
                .byline{color:#696969 ; font-size:x-small;}
                .story{color:#000000;}
                td{color:#000000;}
                '''

    feeds = [
              (u'Top Stories' , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/politicopicks.xml' )
              ,(u'Congress'    , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/congress.xml'      )
              ,(u'Ideas'       , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/ideas.xml'         )
              ,(u'Life'        , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/life.xml'          )
              ,(u'Lobbyists'   , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/lobbyists.xml'     )
              ,(u'Pitboss'     , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/pitboss.xml'       )
              ,(u'Politics'    , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/politics.xml'      )
              ,(u'Roger Simon' , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/rogersimon.xml'    )
              ,(u'Suite Talk'  , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/suitetalk.xml'     )
              ,(u'Playbook'    , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/playbook.xml'      )
              #(u'The Huddle'  , u'http://www.politico.com/rss/huddle.xml' )
            ]

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        mtag = '<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"/>'
        soup.head.insert(0,mtag)
        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
            del item['style']
        return soup

    url_pat = re.compile(r'<a href="([^"]+print.*\.cfm[^"]+)"')

    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):

            for tag in soup.findAll(name=['table', 'tr', 'td']):
                tag.name = 'div'
            return soup

    def print_version(self, url):
        raw = self.index_to_soup(url, raw=True)
        try:
            url = self.url_pat.search(raw).group(1)
        except:
            traceback.print_exc()
            url = None
        return url