On Feb 20, 3:32 pm, "Jorge Vargas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 20, 2008 8:15 AM, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jorge Vargas wrote: > > > I need a data structure that will let me do: > > > > - attribute access (or index) > > > - maintain the order (for iter and print) > > > - be mutable. > [...] > > > Sounds like a good time to learn ElementTree (included in Python 2.5 but > > available for earlier versions). > > I am using ET, to fetch the data from the XML, after that I want a > plain python object. for the rest of the program.
Ok, you just lost me... Why do you thin ET is not appropriate (*)? It fits all your requirements, is optimized for representing hierarchical data (especially xml), it is fast, it is well tested, it has a community of users, it is included in the standard library, etc., etc. ...maybe I didn't grok what you meant by "plain python object"? -- bjorn (*) I just had a flashback to the movie ET -- the scene when he's in the closet ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
