I think GNU favors the info tool, try that if the man page is lacking.
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RTFM doesn’t have to literally mean to read text, just like saying “let me google that for you” doesn’t have to literally be google. Both statements are similar; the point is instead of burdening others with teaching you something, go learn it on your own whether that be the manual or random Indian tech youtuber.


I’ve coded this and I’m a retard. Relative portion from a method:
from urllib.request import urlopen foundrss = False for line in urlopen(self.channelurl): for word in line.split(): if foundrss: if not self.feedurl: self.feedurl = word.split(b'"')[1].decode("utf-8") if 'xml' not in self.feedurl: raise Exception("'xml' not found in feedurl") elif not self.channelname: # feed url is set, extract the channel name that comes soon after if word.startswith(b'content='): # start collecting words self.channelname = [word.split(b'"')[1].decode("utf-8")] if word.count(b'"') == 2: # channel name is a single word self.channelname = self.channelname[0] return else: # we have channelname started, just collect the rest of the words now if b'"' in word: # get text to the left of " self.channelname.append(word.split(b'"')[0].decode("utf-8")) self.channelname = ' '.join(self.channelname) return else: self.channelname.append(word.decode("utf-8")) elif word == b'title="RSS"': foundrss = True