Hi Aleksandra,
There's a module on XML in the Version 3 notes
(https://github.com/swcarpentry/v3/); the Python libraries for
manipulating XML have moved on since that was written (eight years ago
now), but the explanation of what it is and why it's complicated may be
useful.
Thanks,
Greg
Hi Aleksandra,
The idea is that they will need to grab some XML files, parse
them and then do some rather simple manipulation with the outputs.
What about using JSON or YAML instead of XML? I don't want to raise a flame war
about file formats but Python's Standard JSON library [1] and PyYAML
Dear All,
What can I say...You are AMAZING :-) Thanks a lot for all emails and
info. Very very useful already.
Andrew, if it doesn't take too much of your time, can you point me to
the old XPath exercises you mentioned?
Yours truly grateful,
Aleksandra
On 30 October 2014 14:13, Andrew Walker
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Andrew Walker [EAR]
a.wal...@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
If the lesson should be applicable to a wider range of documents I think
BeautifulSoup is probably the way to go. If the idea is to learn about the
details of XML I would probably start with an exercise
One other quick point: for generating XML, I would recommend against using
ETree or lxml: instead, a templating engine such as Jinja or Mako is more
fluent and easier. (I think, YMMV.)
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Hi all-
I had a question about targeting appropriate enrolment for a course. I
recently taught an intermediate Python workshop (intermediate as defined
by
the basics course preceding it) at my home institution. It filled within
hours, which was encouraging.
But, day of, about 1/5 of the
Hi everyone, sorry for top-posting.
I think this sentence Learners will be expected to be familiar with
control flow, basic Python objects (variable assignment, lists,
dictionaries) and file input and output. may be your problem. Beginners
will not know what they don't know, and it may not be
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Thanks for the shout out Aron.
It's all true.
In addition to Dav and I, the Data Science Fellows include the excellent
software carpentry instructors: Justin Kitzes, Karthik Ram, and brand new
instructor Fatma Imamoglu, among many others.
Don't forget - you'd get to hang out on a daily basis
+1 Sarah, the code sample is an interesting idea, we should totally try
it! But, I'd love to see some experimentation done to test my sneaking
suspicion that struggling students don't read the advertisement text at
all. I'm comfortable assuming that that's part of the effect - but how
big a
Interesting stuff Bill.
I guess the easy way to test your hypothesis is to seed the advert with
something that you can reference afterwards. Please bring a photo of your
local neighbourhood cat for our ice breaker session, please bring an
apple for the instructor, please come carrying a placard
Hi Aleksandra,
No problem. I've dug the old XPath exercises out from a dusty disk and made
them accessible here: http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~earawa/FoX/iFaX/iFaX.3/
with the introductory slide deck here:
http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~earawa/FoX/iFaX/Docs/Practical3_intro.pdf
I
Hi,
We had another couple of students run into Git doesn't run on Mac OS X
10.8 problems today - as with the workshop in Toronto at the beginning
of the month, 'git --version' works fine, but anything beyond that (such
as 'git init .') fails because of a symbol binding problem (missing
Looks like most of the advice comes down to install a different Git.
You could track down an older installer for Macs, install GitHub for Mac (
https://mac.github.com/), or install the command line tools, either via
XCode or by downloading just the command line tools from Apple's developer
site
Hi Greg,
After you've tried all these solutions tomorrow, perhaps you (or one of the
other instructors you're with this week) could write a blog post and/or
update the wiki (
https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/wiki/Configuration-Problems-and-Solutions)
to alert the community about the best way to
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