Hal Styli <silly...@yahoo.com> writes: > Hello, > > Can someone please help. > I have a sed solution to the problems below but would like to rewrite > in python... > > I need to strip out some data from a quirky xml file into a csv: > > from something like this > > < ..... cust="dick" .... product="eggs" ... quantity="12" .... > > < .... cust="tom" .... product="milk" ... quantity="2" ...> > < .... cust="harry" .... product="bread" ... quantity="1" ...> > < .... cust="tom" .... product="eggs" ... quantity="6" ...> > < ..... cust="dick" .... product="eggs" ... quantity="6" .... > > > to this > > dick,eggs,12 > tom,milk,2 > harry,bread,1 > tom,eggs,6 > dick,eggs,6 > > I am new to python and xml and it would be great to see some slick > ways of achieving the above by using python's XML capabilities to > parse the original file or python's regex to achive what I did using > sed.
It's not clear how your XML actually looks, but (especially) if those are all attributes of one element I probably would just use xml.sax I strongly suggest to not use regex to parse XML. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
