Hi Everyone,
Thanks for all your suggestions. I read up on gzip and urllib and also
learned in the process that I could use urllib2 as its the latest form of
that library.
Herewith my solution: I don't know how elegant it is, but it works just
fine.
def get_contests():
url = '
http://xml.matchbook.com/xmlfeed/feed?sport-id=&vendor=TEST&sport-name=&short-name=Po
'
req = urllib2.Request(url)
req.add_header('accept-encoding','gzip/deflate')
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
response = opener.open(req)
compressed_data = response.read()
compressed_stream = StringIO.StringIO(compressed_data)
gzipper = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=compressed_stream)
data = gzipper.read()
current_path = os.path.realpath(MEDIA_ROOT + '/xml-files/d.xml')
data_file = open(current_path, 'w')
data_file.write(data)
data_file.close()
xml_data = ET.parse(open(current_path, 'r'))
contest_list = []
for contest_parent_node in xml_data.getiterator('contest'):
contest = Contest()
for contest_child_node in contest_parent_node:
if (contest_child_node.tag == "name" and
contest_child_node.text is not None and contest_child_node.text != ""):
contest.name = contest_child_node.text
if (contest_child_node.tag == "league" and
contest_child_node.text is not None and contest_child_node.text != ""):
contest.league = contest_child_node.text
if (contest_child_node.tag == "acro" and
contest_child_node.text is not None and contest_child_node.text != ""):
contest.acro = contest_child_node.text
if (contest_child_node.tag == "time" and
contest_child_node.text is not None and contest_child_node.text != ""):
contest.time = contest_child_node.text
if (contest_child_node.tag == "home" and
contest_child_node.text is not None and contest_child_node.text != ""):
contest.home = contest_child_node.text
if (contest_child_node.tag == "away" and
contest_child_node.text is not None and contest_child_node.text != ""):
contest.away = contest_child_node.text
contest_list.append(contest)
try:
os.remove(current_path)
except:
pass
return contest_list
Many thanks!
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Brian Bouterse <bmbou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We all have our opinions. Either way this conversation is OT from Django.
>
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Masklinn <maskl...@masklinn.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2011-05-24, at 21:57 , Brian Bouterse wrote:
>> > +1 for xpath
>> >
>> > I also like using
>> > xml.dom.minidom<http://docs.python.org/library/xml.dom.minidom.html
>> >since
>> > it is so simple and straightforward.
>> >
>> I'm sorry, but I whole-heartedly disagree with this. ElementTree is orders
>> of magnitude simpler and more straightforward than the unending pain of
>> working with the DOM interface.
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