On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:45:17 -0700, amjadcsu wrote: > I am not getting into the xml parser.
What does this mean!? > The error is not generated but also the /root/yhpc-2.0/ganglia.txt does > not contain anything. Maybe because… >> > def endElement(self,name): >> > if name=="HOST" and self.searchTerm==self.hostname: >> > try: >> > fh=open('/root/yhpc-2.0/ganglia.txt' ,'w') >> > except: >> > print "File /root/yhpc-2.0/ganglia.txt can not be >> > open" >> > sys.exit(1) >> > fh.write("This is a test for xml parsing with python with >> > chris and amjad \n") >> > fh.write("the host name is", self.hostname, "\n") …this line will raise an exception. `file.write()` takes just one argument, not three as in this call. If you don't get an exception maybe you have other places with a bare ``except`` like in the snippet above. Don't do that. Catch the specific exception you want to handle with an ``except`` and not simply *all*. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list