william tanksley wrote: > I want to parse my iTunes Library xml. All was well, until I unplugged > and left for the train (where I get most of my personal projects > done). All of a sudden, I discovered that apparently the presence of a > DOCTYPE in the iTunes XML makes xml.dom.minidom insist on accessing > the Internet... So suddenly I was unable to do any work. > > I don't want to modify the iTunes XML; iTunes rewrites it too often. > How can I prevent xml.dom.minidom from dying when it can't access the > Internet? > > Is there a simpler way to read the iTunes XML? (It's merely a plist, > so the format is much simpler than general XML.)
Try lxml. Since version 2.0, its parsers will not access the network unless you tell it to do so. http://codespeak.net/lxml It's also much easier to use than minidom and much faster: http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/03/30/python-html-parser-performance/ Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
