On Apr 3, 5:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have just started learning python.I need to parse an XML file > and present the contents in a particular format.The format is called > as "ini" file.I have written some code.A section of the format needs > the data to be present in format as given below: > > [Services] > supported=0x10,0x1A,0x3B,0x20,0x27,0x28,0x34,0x36,0x3E,0xA2,0xA5,0x2D, > 0x22,0xA9,0x04,0xAA,0xAE > > My code for this section parses the xml file and gives : > [Services] > Supported=['0x3e', '0x28', '0x3b', '0x22', '0x20', '0x27', '0xaa', > '0x10', '0xae', '0x34', '0x36', '0x2d', '0xa9', '0xa5', '0x4', '0xa2', > '0x1a'] > > {forget the numericals matching}.As you can see there > are single quotes around numericals ,which is not desired .I think the > problem lies in me using a list for storing and later printing out > values.I have attached few lines of code,not sure how clear it can be > to you: > > for l in range(0,len(ser_par), > 1): > if > ser_par[l].getAttribute('Semantics')==u'serviceId': > if > tag_exists(ser_par[l].childNodes,'VALUE'): > val = > ser_par[l].getElementsByTagName('VALUE') > value = > str(val[0].getAttribute('value')) > valu = hex(int(value)) > rval.append(valu) > ser_par_num = ser_par_num + 1 > prim_num = prim_num + 1 > > service_num = service_num + 1 > variant_num = variant_num + 1 > ser = list(set(rval)) > > print "\n[Services]" > print "Supported="+str(ser) > > How can i get rid of those single quotes. > > Thanking you > > shakeel
>>> l = ['0x3e', '0x28', '0x3b', '0x22', '0x20', '0x27', '0xaa'] >>> ','.join(l) '0x3e,0x28,0x3b,0x22,0x20,0x27,0xaa' You may want to look at the ConfigParser package too. It's for reading/ writing .ini file. -- bytecolor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list