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news.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+from urllib.request import urlretrieve as curl
+
+doc = ET.parse(curl("https://micronews.debian.org/feeds/atom.xml")[0]).getroot()
+drops = {}
+drops[0] = doc[5][0].text
+while any(len(drops[i]) > 77 for i in drops.keys()):
+    ind = -1
+    g = False
+    for j in drops.keys():
+       ind += 1
+       if len(drops[j]) > 77:
+           if len(drops[j].split()) > 1:
+               g = True
+               break
+           else:
+               drops[j] = drops[j][:74] + "..."
+    if not g:
+        break
+    if drops.get(ind+1,None) == None:
+        drops[ind+1] = ""
+    drops[ind+1] = f"{drops[ind].split()[-1]} {drops[ind+1]}".strip()
+    drops[ind] = " ".join(drops[ind].split()[:-1])
+title = "\n * ".join(drops.values()).lstrip("\n")
+link = doc[5][1].attrib["href"]
+print(
+    f""" * {title}
+
+   {link}"""
+)