P.S: I was aware that I posted a non-django question: I just took the chance that someone here may have needed to do the same.
Thanks! On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <zebr...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Django users" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Brian Bouterse >> ITng Services >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Sithembewena Lloyd Dube > -- Regards, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
