Enumerating ordered expat attributes with tuplets?

2008-09-11 Thread andy_westken
Hi I'm new to Python and trying to pick up good, idiomatic usage right from the offset. As I was familiar with Expat from C++ (directly and via expatpp) I'm trying to write a little script - using xml.parsers.expat - to search and replace XML attribute values. As I want the attributes to stay in

Re: Enumerating ordered expat attributes with tuplets?

2008-09-11 Thread andy_westken
On Sep 11, 4:04 pm, Manuel Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Andy, > > by the looks of it I'd say that the problem is that the second   > parameter you passed to start_element is not a dictionary at all (the   > clue is in the "AttributeError:

Re: Enumerating ordered expat attributes with tuplets?

2008-09-11 Thread andy_westken
On Sep 11, 4:48 pm, Manuel Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ah, well. Don't know whether it meets your aesthetic standards, but: >  >>> my_list = ['tree', 'hug', 'flower', 'hug', 'bear', 'run'] >  >>> my_list[0:len(a):2] > ['tree', 'flower', 'be