On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:50:38 -0800, Hal Styli wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone please help. > I have a sed solution to the problems below but would like to rewrite in > python... > > I need to strip out some data from a quirky xml file into a csv: > > from something like this > > < ..... cust="dick" .... product="eggs" ... quantity="12" .... > < .... > cust="tom" .... product="milk" ... quantity="2" ...> < .... cust="harry" > .... product="bread" ... quantity="1" ...> < .... cust="tom" .... > product="eggs" ... quantity="6" ...> < ..... cust="dick" .... > product="eggs" ... quantity="6" .... > > > to this > > dick,eggs,12 > tom,milk,2 > harry,bread,1 > tom,eggs,6 > dick,eggs,6 > > I am new to python and xml and it would be great to see some slick ways > of achieving the above by using python's XML capabilities to parse the > original file or python's regex to achive what I did using sed. > > Thanks for any constructive help given. > > Hal
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