completed 'cleanup' function for squashing The Character and slightly revised README

README.md

@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ Mason Today Web is a shitty version of the Mason Today project. It will be the c
 Please refer to the requirements.txt for information on what packages to install to properly run the program.
 
 We make soup. A lot of it.
+
+This is currently licensed under the "wut" license. Plznosteal

pscripts/parscript.py

 print "and we begin"
 
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import requests
+
 class Event:
-    def __init__(self, entryTag): #where var entrySoup is a specific event tag
+    def __init__(self, entryTag): #where var entryTag is a specific event tag
         self.__name = entryTag.find('title').string
         self.__description = entryTag.find('content').string
         self.__time = "timeplaceholder"
@@ -11,35 +14,31 @@ class Event:
     def __str__(self):
         return self.__name + ": " + self.__description + "\n\n"
 
-def cleanup(string):
-    ctr = 0
-    while ctr < len(string):
-        
+def cleanup(str):
+    str = str.replace("&amp;", "&")
+    str = str.replace("&nbsp;", " ")
+    str = str.replace("&ndash;", "-")
+    str = str.replace("&lt;", "<")
+    str = str.replace("&gt;", ">")
+    str = str.replace("<br/>", "\n")
+    return str
 
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-import requests
-f = requests.get("http://25livepub.collegenet.com/calendars/events_all.xml") #grabs the xml from 25live
-#f = open("events.xml", "r") #Opens a local document. events.xml is a shortened version of the larger events doc
-soup = BeautifulSoup(f.text, "lxml") #creates soup of the xml
 
+xmldoc = requests.get("http://25livepub.collegenet.com/calendars/events_all.xml") #grabs the xml from 25live
+#xmldoc = open("events.xml", "r") #Opens a local document. events.xml is a shortened version of the larger events doc
 
-
-entries = soup.find_all('entry') #creates a list of all the entry tags from the xml
-print type(entries[0]), "\n" #prints the first entry
-print entries[0].prettify(), "\n" #prints the first entry out
-print entries[0].find('content').prettify(), "\n" #prints the first content tag in the first entry
+xmldoc = cleanup(xmldoc.text)
+print xmldoc
+soup = BeautifulSoup(xmldoc, "lxml") #creates soup of the xml
+print soup.prettify(), "\n\n"
 
 
-
-titles = []
-for item in entries:
-    titles.append(item.find('title').string)
-#this iterates through the entries and puts each event's title into a list
-print titles, "\n"
+entries = soup.find_all('entry') #creates a list of all the entry tags from the xml
+#print type(entries[0]), "\n" #prints the first entry
+#print entries[0].prettify(), "\n" #prints the first entry out
+#print entries[0].find('content').prettify(), "\n" #prints the first content tag in the first entry
 
 
-events = []
-for item in entries:
-    events.append(Event(item))
 
-print events
+#for item in entries:
+#    print item.find('content').string, "\n\n"