For a compelling (and humorous) argument of why NOT to use Regex to parse XML/HTML, read this SO nugget:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags Seriously, it's my favorite SO post ever. Enjoy! On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 8:47:42 PM UTC-6, Cliff wrote: > > That was very helpful. I can now hear music! The regex so far has just > been working so I haven't messed with it. Thanks for the suggestion, I will > look into better ways to manage the XML. > > Thanks Leonel! > > On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 7:08:11 PM UTC-5, Leonel Câmara wrote: >> >> Heres an example >> >> def stream(): >> """ >> Stream an mp3 from an absolute path given as var >> WARNING: This is definitely unsafe as it doesn't care what that path >> is at all. >> WARNING: Seriously this is just an example, don't use it. >> """ >> import os >> if os.path.exists(request.vars.path): >> response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'audio/mpeg3' >> return response.stream(open(request.vars.path, 'rb'), >> chunk_size=4096) >> else: >> raise HTTP(404) >> >> >> By the way, after looking at your code, I have to say, you really >> shouldn't use regexes to parse XML, it's really not their purpose. It's >> quite simple to refactor that using cElementTree or any other xml parser. >> >> Good luck with your project! >> >> Quarta-feira, 11 de Dezembro de 2013 0:11:46 UTC, Cliff escreveu: >>> >>> Hello. >>> >>> I am new to both python and web2py but have been playing with it a bit. >>> I have made a simple program to listen to like artists from lastfm's API. I >>> store my mp3s in a database: Artist/Track/File. It will go through my mp3s >>> and find like songs and play them with jPlayer. I am stuck at playing the >>> songs with jPlayer. It is trying to play my songs from >>> /media/Music/artist/track.mp3 which is out of web2py's static dir. What >>> would be the best way to allow web2py to access these files? If you had any >>> examples that would be great. >>> >>> An example of the error: HTTP load failed with status 404. Load of media >>> resource https://IP:8080/media/Music/mp3/Artist/Song.mp3 failed. >>> (removed IP and artist/song since they were not important) >>> >>> This will only be used by me and on my local server so I am not >>> concerned with the security issues of accessing files outside of static. >>> >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Cliff >>> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
