Su Wei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if i have a xml file like this: > <ActionMappings> > <Action path="cpuInformation" type="CPUAction" next="CPUFrameGUI"/> > <Action path="cdromInformation" type="CDROMAction" next="CDROMFrameGUI"/> > </ActionMappings> > > i want to save this information,and used by other moduls later. > > how should i do it? ths
First you need an xml library. There's one built into Python, but ElementTree is a simpler one: http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm I've saved your text into a file named 'temp.xml': py> print open('temp.xml').read() <ActionMappings> <Action path="cpuInformation" type="CPUAction" next="CPUFrameGUI"/> <Action path="cdromInformation" type="CDROMAction" next="CDROMFrameGUI"/> </ActionMappings> Now let's parse that file: py> from elementtree import ElementTree py> actionmappings = ElementTree.parse('temp.xml').getroot() py> for action in actionmappings: ... print action.attrib ... {'path': 'cpuInformation', 'type': 'CPUAction', 'next': 'CPUFrameGUI'} {'path': 'cdromInformation', 'type': 'CDROMAction', 'next': 'CDROMFrameGUI'} Note that I now have an object that I've named 'actionmappings' which contains all the data I need. How do you want the information from the XML file to be available? If you're happy navigating the XML structure, you can just pass this object around. If you included the code above in a module called, say, 'progconfig', then you could access this info in another file like: improt progconfig # the following should give you 'cpuInformation' progconfig.actionmappings[0].attrib['path'] If you don't like the format the XML file gives you, you'll need to give us more information on how you'd like to reformat it. STeVe P.S. Please make sure you reply to the list. I probably won't be able to answer again tonight, but someone else on the list may... -- You can wordify anything if you just verb it. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
