urlfetch.fetch() returns a Response object, not a response value as a string: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/urlfetch/responseobjects.html
This code should do the trick: root = ET.fromstring(response.content.strip()) On Nov 17, 3:53 am, Maarten_D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to port a perl app to python and i dont have much > experience with python. > I need to strip the leading and trailing whitespaces from a http post > result: > > def sms_sender(a): > query_args = { 'username':username, > 'password':password, > 'to':'001234567890', > 'from':'001234567890', > 'text':a } > encoded_args = urllib.urlencode(query_args) > url = 'https://myaccount.smsdiscount.com/clx/sendsms.php' > #print urllib.urlopen(url, encoded_args).read() > response = urlfetch.fetch(url=url, > payload=encoded_args, > method=urlfetch.POST, > headers={'Content-Type': 'application/x-www- > form-urlencoded'}) > response = response.strip() > root = ET.fromstring(response) > #Create an iterator > iter = root.getiterator() > #Iterate > for element in iter: > if element.text: > text = element.text > if element.tag == "result": > ResultCode = repr(text) > elif element.tag == "resultstring": > ResultString = repr(text) > elif element.tag == "resultdescription": > ResultDescription = repr(text) > elif element.tag == "endcause": > ResultEndCause = repr(text) > > I know the code is horrible! > I get the error: > > AttributeError: '_URLFetchResult' object has no attribute 'strip' > > I really dont know how to proceed!! Please help.. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---