Python/feedparser script won't display on CGI/ character coding - python

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
import os
import cgi
import string
import feedparser
count = 0
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"
print """<PRE><B>WORK MAINTENANCE/B></PRE>"""
d = feedparser.parse("http://www.hep.hr/ods/rss/radovi.aspx?dp=zagreb")
for opis in d:
try:
print """<B>Place/Time:</B> %s<br>""" % d.entries[count].title
print """<B>Streets:</B> %s<br>""" % d.entries[count].description
print """<B>Published:</B> %s<br>""" % d.entries[count].date
print "<br>"
count+= 1
except:
pass
I have a problem with CGI and paython script. Under the terminal script runs just fine except "IndexError: list index out of range", and I put pass for that. But when I run script through CGI I only get WORK MAINTENANCE line and first line from d.entries[count].title repeated 9 times? So confusing...
Also how can I setup support in feedparser for Croation(balkan) letters; č,ć,š,ž,đ ?
# -- coding: utf-8 -- is not working and I m running Ubuntu server.
Thank you in advance for help.
Regards.


for opis in d:
try:
print """<B>Place/Time:</B> %s<br>""" % d.entries[count].title
You're not using 'opis' in your output.
Try something like this:
for entry in d.entries:
try:
print """<B>Place/Time:</B> %s<br>""" % entry.title
....


Oke had another problem, text that I manualy entered would show on CGI but RSS web pages wouldnt. So you need to encode before you write:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys, os, string
import cgi
import feedparser
import codecs
d = blablablabla
print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n"
print
for entry in d.entries:
print """%s""" % entry.title.encode('utf-8')

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