When dealing with files you pass it an object! So make your string an object and then it should work!
On Dec 31, 2007 8:17 AM, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 31, 3:42 am, "Peter Pei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One bad design about elementtree is that it has different ways parsing a > > string and a file, even worse they return different objects: > > 1) When you parse a file, you can simply call parse, which returns a > > elementtree, on which you can then apply xpath; > > 2) To parse a string (xml section), you can call XML or fromstring, but > both > > return element instead of elementtree. This alone is bad. To make it > worse, > > you have to create an elementtree from this element before you can > utilize > > xpath. > > I haven't tried this, but you should be able to wrap your text string > so that it looks like a file using the stringio module and pass that > to elementtree: > > http://blog.doughellmann.com/2007/04/pymotw-stringio-and-cstringio.html > > - Paddy. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://search.goldwatches.com/?Search=Movado+Watches http://www.jewelerslounge.com http://www.goldwatches.com
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