Kee Nethery wrote:
On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:39 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
parsing a
document from a string does not have its own function, because it is
trivial to write
tree = parse(BytesIO(some_byte_string))
:-) Trivial for someone familiar with the language. For a newbie like
me, that
Carl Banks wrote:
On Jun 25, 10:11 pm, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Carl Banks wrote:
Why isn't et.parse the only way to do this? Why have XML or fromstring
at all?
Because Fredrick Lundh wanted it that way. Unlike most Python
libraries ElementTree is under the control of one person, which means
Hi,
Kee Nethery wrote:
Why isn't et.parse the only way to do this? Why have XML or fromstring
at all?
Well, use cases. XML() is an alias for fromstring(), because it's
convenient (and well readable) to write
section = XML('section id=XYZtitleA to Z/title/section')
On Jun 25, 11:20 pm, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote:
Carl Banks wrote:
On Jun 25, 10:11 pm, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Carl Banks wrote:
Why isn't et.parse the only way to do this? Why have XML or fromstring
at all?
Because Fredrick Lundh wanted it that way. Unlike most Python
First, thanks to everyone who responded. Figured I'd test all the
suggestions and provide a response to the list. Here goes ...
On Jun 25, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Nobody wrote:
Why do you need an ElementTree rather than an Element? XML(string)
returns
the root element, as if you had used
Summary: I have XML as string and I want to pull it into ElementTree
so that I can play with it but it is not working for me. XML and
fromstring when used with a string do not do the same thing as parse
does with a file. How do I get this to work?
Details:
I have a CGI that receives XML
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:02:25 -0700, Kee Nethery wrote:
Summary: I have XML as string and I want to pull it into ElementTree
so that I can play with it but it is not working for me. XML and
fromstring when used with a string do not do the same thing as parse
does with a file. How do I
On Jun 25, 9:02 pm, Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com wrote:
Summary: I have XML as string and I want to pull it into ElementTree
so that I can play with it but it is not working for me. XML and
fromstring when used with a string do not do the same thing as parse
does with a file. How do I get this to
On Jun 25, 6:02 pm, Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com wrote:
Summary: I have XML as string and I want to pull it into ElementTree
so that I can play with it but it is not working for me. XML and
fromstring when used with a string do not do the same thing as parse
does with a file. How do I get
thank you to everyone, I'll play with these suggestions tomorrow at
work and report back.
On Jun 25, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
Because Fredrick Lundh wanted it that way. Unlike most Python
libraries ElementTree is under the control of one person, which means
it was not designed or
On Jun 25, 8:53 pm, Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com wrote:
On Jun 25, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
A few minor
things should be no big deal.
True and I will eventually get past the minor quirks. As a newbie,
figured I'd point out the difficult portions, things that conceptually
are
Carl Banks wrote:
Why isn't et.parse the only way to do this? Why have XML or fromstring
at all?
Because Fredrick Lundh wanted it that way. Unlike most Python
libraries ElementTree is under the control of one person, which means
it was not designed or vetted by the community, which means
On Jun 25, 10:11 pm, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote:
Carl Banks wrote:
Why isn't et.parse the only way to do this? Why have XML or fromstring
at all?
Because Fredrick Lundh wanted it that way. Unlike most Python
libraries ElementTree is under the control of one person, which
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