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First python program, and first question on Stack Overflow. I'm definitely punching out of my weight class with what I'm trying to do, but I've always heard that one of the best motivations for learning to program is wanting to solve a problem, and that turned out to be the case for me.

I'm trying to get Snips to go to my private calendar's RSS feed, and parse my upcoming appointments, and use TTS to tell me what I've got going that day. I've made a lot of progress (at least as I'm seeing it) and at this point, I can run my program and it successfully goes to the RSS feed using feedparser.py and selects all of the events on the current day (learning about dates and time conversions in Python took me quite a bit of time!), and sends a MQTT message back to Snips, which used PicoTTS to read them to me. The issue I'm having is that the Webcalendar RSS feed orders the event entries by which is formatted as GMT time. I'm not living in the GMT timezone, so I've learned enough Python to to correctly format GMT time to my timezone (thanks to StackOverflow and a lot of reading!) so I'm able to correctly select events that are scheduled for the day. As an example, here's the RSS feed for yesterday, showing two events, both of which occur on 14 Nov 2018 when the correct timezone is applied (PST).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

<rss version="2.0" xml:lang="en-us">

<channel>

  <title><![CDATA[WebCalendar]]></title>

  <link>http://XX.XX.XX.XX/WebCalendar/</link>

  <description><![CDATA[WebCalendar]]></description>

  <language>en-us</language>

  <generator>:"http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php?v=v1.2.7"</generator>

  <image>

    <title><![CDATA[WebCalendar]]></title>

    <link>http://XX.XX.XX.XX/WebCalendar/</link>

    <url>http://www.k5n.us/k5n_small.gif</url>

  </image>

  <item>

    <title><![CDATA[Test Appointment 6]]></title>

    <link>http://XX.XX.XX.XX/WebCalendar/view_entry.php?id=245&amp;friendly=1&amp;rssuser=__public__&amp;date=20181114</link>

    <description><![CDATA[Test Appointment 6 oclock]]></description>

    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

    <guid>http://XX.XX.XX.XX/WebCalendar/view_entry.php?id=245&amp;friendly=1&amp;rssuser=__public__&amp;date=20181114</guid>

</item>

<item>

  <title><![CDATA[Test Appointment 2]]></title>

  <link>http://XX.XX.XX.XX/WebCalendar/view_entry.php?id=246&amp;friendly=1&amp;rssuser=__public__&amp;date=20181114</link>

  <description><![CDATA[Test Appointment 8]]></description>

  <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:00:00 GMT GMT</pubDate>

  <guid>http://XX.XX.XX.XX/WebCalendar/view_entry.php?id=246&amp;friendly=1&amp;rssuser=__public__&amp;date=20181114</guid>

</item>

So, here's my issue. Because of how Webcalendar presents events (ordered by by GMT date/time) in the RSS feed and how I'm looping through all of the entries from first to last, I'm getting events presented in the wrong order, e.g. Appointment 6 (which is a 6 o'clock pm PST time ) is entered into my list BEFORE Appointment 2 (which is at 2 o'clock PST time) and when the list is sent to Snips via MQTT, the events are read back to me out of order (not what I want!)
I think that I can use Python insertion sort to fix the issue, (but I'm open to other suggestions!) based on this Stack Overflow posting (How does Python insertion sort work?) but I'm not sure how I can keep title and pubDate from the RSS feed together when I'm using insertion sort to the list since I need the list to contain both entries, and my strings to make the TTS make sense since all of the examples for insertion sort I've found are shown using a it to sort a single variable.

Any help or direction would be very much appreciated!!

d = feedparser.parse('http://XX.XX.XX.XX/WebCalendar/rss.php?numdays=3&repeats=1')

global parsedListOfCalendarEntryTitles # Create a global variable:parsedListOfCalendarEntryTitles that will be used to hold the list of parsed RSS feed entry titles & Time

parsedListOfCalendarEntryTitles =  # Define the global variable:  parsedListOfCalendarEntryTitles as a list



global mqttFormattedListOfCalendarEntryTitles #Create a global variable: mqttFormattedListOfCalendarEntryTitles that will be used to hold the list of MQTT RSS feed entry titles & Time

mqttFormattedListOfCalendarEntryTitles =  # Define the global variable: mqttFormattedListOfCalendarEntryTitles as a list



    for entry in d.entries:

        from_zone = tz.tzutc()

        to_zone = tz.tzlocal()

        date = entry.published

        utc = datetime.strptime(date, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z')

        utc = utc.replace(tzinfo=from_zone)

        pacificTime = utc.astimezone(to_zone)

        today = datetime.now()

        if today.date() == pacificTime.date():

           parsedListOfCalendarEntryTitles.append("You have " + entry.title + " at " + pacificTime.strftime("%I:%M %p"))

    print(parsedListOfCalendarEntryTitles)