On 09/29/2015 07:28 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
jmp wrote:
import bs4
import jinja2
xml = """<cities>
<city>
<name>BuenosAires</name>
<temperature>30</temperature>
</city>
<city>
<name>Seatle</name>
<temperature>25</temperature>
</city>
</cities>"""
lua_template = """
cities_temps ={
{%- for city, temp in cities.iteritems() %}
["{{city}}"] = {{temp}},
{%- endfor %}
}"""
xmlp = bs4.BeautifulSoup(xml, 'xml')
# from xml to python dictionary
data = {city.find('name').string:city.find('temperature').string for
city in xmlp.findAll('city')}
# from python dictionary to lua
print jinja2.Template(lua_template).render(cities=data)
will yield (python 2.7):
cities_temps ={
["BuenosAires"] = 30,
["Seatle"] = 25,
}
Is Ariel's xml file user-supplied? If so, how does your suggestion prevent
the resulting lua script from executing arbitrary code?
It does not. Like it doesn't fulfill the millions of possible
requirements the OP could have written but did not. What if the OP want
a thread safe, super fast, multi core solution distributed on multiple
remote hosts ?
jm
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