python-feedparser handles media:title tags in RSS feeds wrong in two different ways. First of all, it attempts to base64-decode their contents when the namespace schema says that they're entity-encoded. Second, the contents of media:title overwrites the contents of title, so the entry title gets set wrong. Both of these issues appear to be fixed in the current svn version of feedparser at http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/checkout. I don't know if/when the author is going to be putting out a new official release, but is there any chance of pulling a new version from svn rather than waiting for him? jik
Related bugs in the feedparser bug database: http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=18 http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=28 http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=47 http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=54 http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=61 http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=63 http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=77 http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=80 http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=83 And there are more. *A lot* of people have encountered this issue.
And it's fixed in Debian (see the comment on http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=80). There, that should motivate Fedora to fix it even if Mark Pilgrim doesn't put out a release. Nothing like a little healty competition :-).
The maintainer of rss2email also believes that the development version of feedparser is stable and recommends that people use it. See http://rss2email.infogami.com/FAQ#1.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
*sigh* More than four months after I reported this, and there has been no visible action on the ticket, and it's still broken, and RSS feed parsing in python just broke on my system again because I upgraded from rawhide and the upgrade overwrote my local copy of feedparser.py. PLEASE fix this.
python-feedparser-4.1-10.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-feedparser-4.1-10.fc10
python-feedparser-4.1-10.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-feedparser-4.1-10.fc11
python-feedparser-4.1-5.el4 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 4. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-feedparser-4.1-5.el4
python-feedparser-4.1-10.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-feedparser-4.1-10.el5
python-feedparser-4.1-10.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update python-feedparser'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8378
python-feedparser-4.1-10.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update python-feedparser'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-8397
Please put it into rawhide.
python-feedparser-4.1-10.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update python-feedparser'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-5/FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0256
python-feedparser-4.1-5.el4 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 4 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update python-feedparser'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-4/FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0250
python-feedparser-4.1-10.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
python-feedparser-4.1-10.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
python-feedparser-4.1-10.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
python-feedparser-4.1-5.el4 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 4 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.