kaens wrote:
> Now the code looks like this:
>
> import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
>
> optionsXML = etree.parse("options.xml")
> options = {}
>
> for child in optionsXML.getiterator():
> if child.tag != optionsXML.getroot().tag:
> options[child.tag] = child.text
>
> for key, value in options.items():
> print key, ":", value
Three things to add:
Importing cElementTree instead of ElementTree should speed this up pretty
heavily, but:
Consider using iterparse():
http://effbot.org/zone/element-iterparse.htm
*untested*:
from xml.etree import cElementTree as etree
iterevents = etree.iterparse("options.xml")
options = {}
for event, child in iterevents:
if child.tag != "parent":
options[child.tag] = child.text
for key, value in options.items():
print key, ":", value
Note that this also works with lxml.etree. But using lxml.objectify is maybe
actually what you want:
http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/objectify.html
*untested*:
from lxml import etree, objectify
# setup
parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True)
lookup = objectify.ObjectifyElementClassLookup()
parser.setElementClassLookup(lookup)
# parse
parent = etree.parse("options.xml", parser)
# get to work
option1 = parent.option1
...
# or, if you prefer dictionaries:
options = vars(parent)
for key, value in options.items():
print key, ":", value
Have fun,
Stefan
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