I would do like this,
1.
import os.path
testPath = '/here/is/my/path/here/is/my/path/here/is/my/path'
path = os.path.split(testPath)[0]
2.
from xml.dom import minidom
doc = minidom.parse('/users/makoto/documents/test.xml' )
value = doc.getElementsByTagName('xmlTest')[0].getAttribute('myVersion')
On 2010/03/05, at 9:53, efecto wrote:
> i got it thank you all for help.
> a bit dirty though.
>
> value = re.split(' ', xml[xml.index(tag)+len(tag):len(xml)])
> value = value[0].replace('="','').replace('"','')
> print value
>
> On Mar 5, 9:38 pm, Adam Mechtley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yeah for that you need a different pattern, since the pipe character is not
>> counted as part of a word (only alphanumeric and underscore)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Daisuke Maki <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> oops.
>>
>>> What about this one?
>>
>>> import re
>>> xml = '<xmlTest yo345="wdwdd" test0="12345" test1="m|yP|ic" test2="1234"
>>> myVersion="6">'
>>> tag = 'test1' #to get myPic
>>> value = re.split('\W+', xml[xml.index(tag)+len(tag):len(xml)])[1]
>>> print value
>>> # m
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Adam Mechtley
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>> No idea; works for me if I paste in what you just typed here
>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:32 AM, efecto <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Thanks Adam. That worked a treat! I gotta rememebr that.
>>
>>>>> Another question.
>>>>> When i tried the following
>>
>>>>> import re
>>>>> xml = '<xmlTest test1="myPic" test2="1234" myVersion="6">'
>>>>> tag = 'test1' #to get myPic
>>>>> value = re.split('\W+', xml[xml.index(tag)+len(tag):len(xml)])[1]
>>
>>>>> I wanted to get the value 'myPic' but it didnt seem to work. I guess
>>>>> splitting with '\W+' wasn't for this.
>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> D
>>
>>>>> On Mar 5, 5:55 pm, Adam Mechtley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> I'm sure there are plenty of other ways, but I would do:
>>
>>>>>> 1.
>>>>>> testPath[0:testPath.rindex('/')] or testPath[0:testPath.rindex('/')+1]
>>>>> if
>>>>>> you really want that trailing slash for some reason
>>
>>>>>> 2.
>>>>>> import re
>>>>>> xml = '<xmlTest test1="myPic" test2="1234" myVersion="6">'
>>>>>> tag = 'myVersion'
>>>>>> value = re.split('\W+', xml[xml.index(tag)+len(tag):len(xml)])[1]
>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:27 PM, efecto <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 1.
>>>>>>> testPath = '/here/is/my/path/here/is/my/path/here/is/my/path'
>>>>>>> I want to get this path from the variable above.
>>>>>>> /here/is/my/path/here/is/my/path/here/is/my/
>>>>>>> I could use testPath.split('/') then manually create the path but i
>>>>>>> think they may be an easier way to generate the string.
>>
>>>>>>> 2.
>>>>>>> I'm reading in an xml file and would like to get the version '6' from
>>>>>>> the string below.
>>>>>>> How would you do that efficiently? Again I may use split function but
>>>>>>> i'm sure there are more convenient ways
>>>>>>> <xmlTest test1="myPic" test2="1234" myVersion="6">
>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for reading.
>>
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