You flatter me sir (or madam? can't tell from your name...), but I wouldn't presume to so lofty a title among this crowd. I'd save that for the likes of Alan Gauld and Kent Johnson, who are much more prolific and informative contributors to this list than I.
-- Paul -----Original Message----- From: hrishy [mailto:hris...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:36 PM To: python-list@python.org; Paul McGuire Subject: Re: XML Parsing Ha the guru himself responding :-) --- On Wed, 25/2/09, Paul McGuire <pt...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > From: Paul McGuire <pt...@austin.rr.com> > Subject: Re: XML Parsing > To: python-list@python.org > Date: Wednesday, 25 February, 2009, 2:04 PM On Feb 25, 1:17 am, hrishy > <hris...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > Hi > > > > Something like this > > > <snip solution using ElementTree> > > > > Note i am not a python programmer just a enthusiast > and i was curious why people on the list didnt suggest a code like > above > > > > You just beat the rest of us to it - good example of ElementTree for > parsing XML (and I Iearned the '//' shortcut for one or more > intervening tag levels). > > To the OP: if you are parsing XML, I would look hard at the modules > (esp. ElementTree) that are written explicitly for XML, before > considering using regular expressions. There are just too many > potential surprises when trying to match XML tags - presence/absence/ > order of attributes, namespaces, whitespace inside tags, to name a > few. > > -- Paul > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
