On 1/27/11, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Alex Hall, 27.01.2011 05:01: >> How would I go about getting the xml from a website through the site's >> api? The url does not end in .xml since the xml is generated based on >> the parameters in the url. For example: >> https://api.website.com/user/me/count/10?api_key=MY_KEY >> would return ten results (the count parameter) as xml. How do I >> actually get this xml into my program? TIA. > > The filename extension doesn't matter. If you know it's XML that you get > back, you can use ElementTree (in the xml.etree package) or lxml (external > package) to read it. Use the urllib2 package in the standard library to > request the XML page, then pass the result into the XML parser (parse()). Okay, thanks! > > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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