[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, recently having discovered ElementTree I'm stumped by a very simple > problem, which I can't find the answer to. > > I have some XML in a string object. Now the parse() method of > ElementTree takes a filename or file-like object. So I tried creating a > StringIO object from the original string and then giving that to > parse(). But that does not seem to work.
that should work, but the fromstring function (and it's XML alias) is a lot easier to use. data = "some xml in a string" elem = ElementTree.XML(data) also see the end of this section: http://www.effbot.org/zone/element.htm#reading-and-writing-xml-files </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list