Hi
I have created several versions of a parser for XML with lxml both objectify
and lxml. They all work in that the parser returns the whole file however I
cannot access elements or keys as I have tried to create a dict of the results
to make it easier to put in an sql query later.
However I keep receiving output as just the whole file, I have gone backwards
since last time, learnt more however output is backwards.
Is there something obvious here I am doing wrong, all I am intending to do as a
first test is to get the result and then get the key "number" and return that
key and all its values.
i have left the commented versions in as well they all end in the same result
to me.
def parseXML():
"""
given a file XML will parse for listed attributes.
using objectified lxml
"""
for file in getsMeet(file_list):
with open(file, "rb") as f:
xml = f.read()
root = objectify.parse(xml)
atts = ("number", "id", "horse", "saddlecloth", "barrier",
"weight", "rating", "description", "colours", "owners",
"dob", "age", "sex", "career", "thistrack", "thisdistance",
"goodtrack", "heavytrack", "finished", "weightvariation",
"variedweight", "decimalmargin", "penalty",
"pricestarting")
tree = etree.parse(StringIO(xml))
result = etree.tostring(tree.getroot(), pretty_print=True)
for sample in result:
noms = (dict(zip(atts, map(sample.attrib.get, atts))))
print(noms)
# print(etree.tostring(tree.getroot()))
#
# for sample in root.xpath('//race/nomination'):
# noms = (dict(zip(atts, map(sample.attrib.get, atts))))
# numbers = [(k, v) for k, v in noms.items()]
# print(noms)
# return numbers
# parser = etree.XMLParser(root, remove_comments=True)
# d = defaultdict(list)
# for sample in parser.xpath('//race/nomination'):
# print(sample)
# for sample in root.xpath('//race/nomination'):
# # print(sample)
# dct = sample.attrib
# for k in atts:
# # print(k)
# d[k].append(dct[k])
# print(d["number"])
return noms
a = parseXML()
for sample in a.items:
print(sample["number"])
confused
Sayth
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