> I'm not sure what I'm
> missing so I'd appreciate some advice.
You question is pretty general and I'm not going to go over this in any
great detail, but I will make a few comments.
* In your if section use if ... else constructs not all the strange if
and then not if blocks. Also get rid of all those unneeded if's with the
pass in them. They do nothing.
* You may want to put the heart of the code in a separate function or if
you need persistance, use a class. Optional and depends on how complex
your analysis code is going to be. Generally one function should not
be two deep in terms of block nesting for readabilily
and maintainability.
* the table initialization i.e. table = {} was outside of your main file
scan loop, that seemed strange to me since I think you were doing this
file by file.
* your log writing code was indented below the the if sub_three is None:
if block which means that it's inside that block -- that's probably not
what you want. Remember python defines blocks by indentation. The
indentation is a nice feature because python blocking is in fact like
it looks (unlike C++).
* if your parsing XML and maybe SGML the python library has some special
tools for this. You might want to look at the lib or search the net.
Take care,
Rob
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