Peter and Alan, Peter, Thanks for the information. The library did the trick and I can get access to the XML content.
Alan, thanks for the explanation of the tree structure. I was aware of this already for HTML and XML. Just didn't understand the terminology used from the XML library. The tutorials I have viewed didn't explain this information. I will continue investigating. The library provided has addressed my concerns for now. -----Original Message----- From: Tutor <tutor-bounces+mhysnm1964=gmail....@python.org> On Behalf Of Peter Otten Sent: Tuesday, 22 January 2019 5:22 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Importing XML files. mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: > I am trying to import ITunes XML files. I have been doing some reading > and I am somewhat confused with some XML terminology. > What is: > > > > Tag – I think it is the <key> in the itunes library file. > > Text = The text between the <key> > > Attrib -- don’t know. > > > > If I am correct in my thinking. If you look up all the tags using the > xml module. How do you then isolate all the name text? I do not have > any working code at this present time. I have been playing with the > xml methods and reading some example tutorials. But I am stumped with > the above terminology which is a small road block. Below is an example > extract of my xML ITunes to see if this helps. I am doing this in > Python 3.7 for Windows 10. > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> > > <plist version="1.0"> You may be lucky in that you can avoid the hard way outlined by Alan -- Python's stdandard library includes a module that handles Apple's plist format. I tried your sample, and the module seems to turn it into nested dicts: >>> import plistlib, pprint >>> with open("sample.xml", "rb") as f: ... data = plistlib.load(f) ... >>> pprint.pprint(data, width=70) {'Application Version': '12.8.0.150', 'Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 14, 3, 56, 30), 'Features': 5, 'Library Persistent ID': 'F2D33B339F0788F0', 'Major Version': 1, 'Minor Version': 1, 'Music Folder': 'file:///Volumes/Itunes/iTunes/iTunes%20Media/', 'Show Content Ratings': True, 'Tracks': {'6493': {'Album': 'In Her Sights (Unabridged)', 'Album Artist': 'Robin Perini', 'Artist': 'Robin Perini', 'Artwork Count': 1, 'Bit Rate': 64, 'Comments': "Jasmine 'Jazz' Parker, " 'Jefferson County SWAT’s only ' 'female sniper, can thread the ' 'eye of a needle with a bullet. ' 'But she carries with her a ' 'secret from her past....', [snip] >>> data["Date"].isoformat() '2019-01-14T03:56:30' >>> list(data["Tracks"].values())[0]["Artist"] 'Robin Perini' Looks good, except for the mojibake -- but that was already in your email. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
