Pythonistas: PodLauncher!

[Siege]

I've had an idea for a while of creating a program named PodLauncher, designed to create RSS feeds for podcasts and the like, and even automatically upload the related files via FTP.

Would anyone here be willing to help me work on this project?

[Siege]

Well, a bit of research this evening shows that other companies and OSS working groups have beaten me to the product, but I'm happy to have come up with the concept on my own.

I've been poking at objects and data structures the past few days, and finally realized something. I'd designed a decently usable XML-tree object, but couldn't figure out how to easily browse and alter the tree. A few minutes ago, it occurred to me - I need three storage classes if I want to parse an RSS feed into manipulable objects: header-stuff, feed info, and items, each with its own optional iTunes tokens. I'll be working out the details tonight after a meeting I'm attending.

I hope this bit of chatter gets others interested in working with me on this project, since I'm going to need some help building the GUI.

[silverfox]

Sounds interesting... what would be the primary development platform (or would it be cross-platform), what language?  I'll be checking back here for more updates

[Siege]

I'm writing in Python (itself already highly cross-platform), so it would be nice to have a cross-platform UI as well. By default, my options are shell or Tk. If I install a library like wxPython, I can use that instead, but it increases the install requirements for users.