My specs: Python 3.4.3 Windows 7 IDE is Jupyter Notebooks
What I have referenced: 1) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1546717/python-escaping-strings-for-use-in-xml 2) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7802418/how-to-properly-escape-single-and-double-quotes 3)http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4972210/escaping-characters-in-a-xml-file-with-python Here is the data (in CSV format) and script, respectively, (I have tried variations on serializing Column 'E' using both Sax and ElementTree): i) A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J "3","8","1","<Request TransactionID="3" RequestType="FOO"><InstitutionISO /><CallID>23</CallID><MemberID>12</MemberID><MemberPassword /><RequestData><AccountNumber>2</AccountNumber><AccountSuffix>85</AccountSuffix><AccountType>S</AccountType><MPIAcctType>Checking</MPIAcctType><TransactionCount>10</TransactionCount></RequestData></Request>","<Response TransactionID="2" RequestType="HoldInquiry"><ShareList>0000',0001,0070,</ShareList></Response>","1967-12-25 22:18:13.471000","2005-12-25 22:18:13.768000","2","70","0" ii) #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os.path import sys import csv from io import StringIO import xml.etree.cElementTree as ElementTree from xml.etree.ElementTree import XMLParser import xml import xml.sax from xml.sax import ContentHandler class MyHandler(xml.sax.handler.ContentHandler): def __init__(self): self._charBuffer = [] self._result = [] def _getCharacterData(self): data = ''.join(self._charBuffer).strip() self._charBuffer = [] return data.strip() #remove strip() if whitespace is important def parse(self, f): xml.sax.parse(f, self) return self._result def characters(self, data): self._charBuffer.append(data) def startElement(self, name, attrs): if name == 'Response': self._result.append({}) def endElement(self, name): if not name == 'Response': self._result[-1][name] = self._getCharacterData() def read_data(path): with open(path, 'rU', encoding='utf-8') as data: reader = csv.DictReader(data, delimiter =',', quotechar="'", skipinitialspace=True) for row in reader: yield row if __name__ == "__main__": empty = '' Response = 'sample.csv' for idx, row in enumerate(read_data(Response)): if idx > 10: break data = row['E'] print(data) # The before data = data[1:-1] data = ""'{}'"".format(data) print(data) # Sanity check # data = '<Response TransactionID="2" RequestType="HoldInquiry"><ShareList>0000',0001,0070,</ShareList></Response>' try: root = ElementTree.XML(data) # print(root) except StopIteration: raise pass # xmlstring = StringIO(data) # print(xmlstring) # Handler = MyHandler().parse(xmlstring) Specifically, due to the quoting in the CSV file (which is beyond my control), I have had to resort to slicing the string (line 51) and then formatting it (line 52). However the print out from the above attempt is as follows: "<Response TransactionID="2" RequestType="HoldInquiry"><ShareList>0000' <Response TransactionID="2" RequestType="HoldInquiry"><ShareList>0000 File "<string>", line unknown ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 69 Interestingly - if I assign the variable "data" (as in line 54) I receive this: File "<ipython-input-80-7357c9272b92>", line 56 data = '<Response TransactionID="2" RequestType="HoldInquiry"><ShareList>0000',0001,0070,</ShareList></Response>' ^ SyntaxError: invalid token I seek feedback and information on how to address utilizing the most Pythonic means to do so. Ideally, is there a method that can leverage ElementTree. Thank you, in advance, for your feedback and guidance. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
