title: Restricting RSS elements by date with feedparser. [Python]
body: <p>I iterate a RSS feed like so where _file is the feed</p>
  
  <pre><code>d = feedparser.parse(_file)
  for element in d.entries: 
      print repr(element.date)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The date output comes out like so</p>
  
  <pre><code>u'Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:18:22 EDT'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I cant seem to understand how to actually quantify the above date output so I can use it to limit feed elements.  I So what I am asking is how can I get a actual time out of this, so I can say if greater then 7 days old, skip this element.</p>