> > > Well, yes, I was originally trying to do it it R, but I couldn't get it > working, so I thought I'd try to do it in Python. That was a sample R > script. Can I do essentially the same thing in Python? Can I read the XML > from the web? > http://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/report_format/latest-July-2015-New-Format.xml > > Parse it, or clean it, or whatever, and save it as a CSV or TXT? Is that > possible? > > Thanks.
Of course you can 1. read a file from a website using python urllib modules or requests module (3rd party but simpler) 2. There are several xml parsers. I haven't experienced them, so google is your friend 3. python has csv reader and writer modules -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
