goldtech wrote:
I would be grateful for support with the code I cited. It's not long
and fairly standard. I'm sure my error(s) would be glaring to more
experienced coders. I appreciated the "heads-up" about other options
but I would be grateful for help getting this code to run. Thanks
For comparison, here's how an experienced Python programmer might prefer
to write your code:
import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
description = None # most recently seen description
for event, elem in ET.parse("somefile.xml"):
if elem.tag == "description":
description = elem.text
elif elem.tag == "coordinates":
print description.strip(), elem.text.strip()
You may want to ask yourself why you prefer to struggle with obsolete,
error-prone, and slow technology when there are more efficient tools
available in Python's standard library.
(the lxml library that Stefan linked to is a superset of xml.etree, in
case you want more XML features).
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