import feedparser import eventlet with eventlet.Timeout(10): url = 'http://afeeds.feedburner.com/PythonInsider/.rss' def get_rss(): feed = feedparser.parse(url) posts_to_show = [] for post in feed.entries[0:4]: title = post.title link = post.link posts_to_show.append((title, link)) if not posts_to_show: posts_to_show = [('Click here for latest news from python.org', 'https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/')] return posts_to_show