Python rss to html conversion script

""" Simple rss to html converter """

__version__ = "0.0.1"
__author__ = "Ricky L Wilson"

from feedparser import parse as parsefeed
import StringIO


def entry2html(**kwargs):
    """ Format feedparser entry """
    title = kwargs['title'].encode('utf-8')
    link = kwargs['link'].encode('utf-8')
    description = kwargs['description'].encode('utf-8')
    template = """
    <h2 class='title'>{title}</h2>
    <a class='link' href='{link}'>{title}</a>
    <span class='description'>{description}</span>
    """
    return template.format(title=title, link=link, description=description)


def convert_feed(**kwargs):
    """ Main loop """
    out = StringIO.StringIO("")
    for entry in parsefeed(kwargs['url']).entries:
        title = entry['title']
        link = entry['link']
        description = entry['description']
        print >>out, entry2html(title=title, link=link,
                                description=description)
    return out.getvalue()

print convert_feed(url='http://stackoverflow.com/feeds')

Code Review 

Python: Merg RSS Feeds

from datetime import datetime

tstart = datetime.now()
# Set the feed/channel level properties
# ----------------------------------- #
chanTitle = 'Feed Merger'
chanLink = 'http://server.com/feed'
chanAuthor = 'Bob Dylan'
chanDescription = 'Brain Food'
# ----------------------------------- #
# Apply feed/channel level properties
# ----------------------------------- #
feed = Feed()
feed.feed["title"] = chanTitle
feed.feed["link"] = chanLink
feed.feed["author"] = chanAuthor
feed.feed["description"] = chanDescription
# ----------------------------------- #
urls = list(set(open('urls.txt', 'r').readlines()))
shuffle(urls)
extract_entries = lambda url: feedparser.parse(url).entries
addEntries = lambda entries: [feed.items.append(entry) for entry in entries]
merg = lambda urls: [addEntries(extract_entries(url)) for url in urls]
shuffle(feed.entries)
save = lambda outfile: feed.format_rss2_file(outfile)
merg(urls)
save('feed.xml')
tend = datetime.now()
runtime = tend - tstart
print "Runtime > %s" % (runtime)
print "Merged  > %d items" % (len(feed.entries))