i have walked a directory and have written the foll xml document. one of the folder had "&" character so i replaced it by "&" #------------------test1.xml <Directory> <dirname>C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\bye w&y </dirname> <file> <name>def.txt</name> <time>200607130417</time> </file> </Directory> <Directory> <dirname>C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\hii wx</dirname> <file> <name>abc.txt</name> <time>200607130415</time> </file> </Directory
now in my python code i want to parse this doc and print the directory name. ###----------handler------------filename---handler.py from xml.sax.handler import ContentHandler class oldHandler(ContentHandler): def __init__(self): self.dn = 0 def startElement(self, name, attrs): if name=='dirname': self.dn=1 def characters(self,str): if self.dn: print str def endElement(self, name): if name == 'dirname': self.dn=0 #--------------------------------------------------------------------- #main code--- fname----art.py import sys from xml.sax import make_parser from handlers import oldHandler ch = oldHandler() saxparser = make_parser() saxparser.setContentHandler(ch) saxparser.parse(sys.argv[1]) #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- i run the code as: $python art.py test1.xml i am getting output as: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\bye w & y C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\hii wx where as i need an output which should look like this. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\bye w&y C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\hii wx Can someone tell me the solution for this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list