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How can I use open_http in lxml.html.submit_form to alternate opener?
by terencenwk . 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

How can I use open_http in lxml.html.submit_form to alternate opener? I do not know how to fix the last line of code. from lxml.html import parse, submit_form fundurl = 'http://www.aia.com.hk/en/investment-information/fund_search_content_new.jsp…' page = parse(fundurl).getroot() form = page.forms[0] form.fields['date'] = '08/09/2004' form.fields['todate'] = '3m' #### THE FOLLOWING CODE IS INCORRECT #### result = parse(submit_form(form, {'submit':'Search'}, open_http('GET', 'http://www.aia.com.hk/en/investment-information/fund_search_content_new.jsp…', {'date':'08/19/2004','todate':'3m'})))

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How can I install lxml to make my code with lxml can run in mapreduce
by freegly 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi, all, I write a program with lxml and make it a hadoop mapreduce program, but lxml is not installed in these hadoop machines. How can I install lxml as a zip package , so I can submit my code with this package as a mapreduce job ?

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lxml 3.3.3 released
by Stefan Behnel 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi all, I'm happy to announce the release of lxml 3.3.3. This is a bug-fix-only release for the stable lxml 3.3 series. It fixes a crash when subclassing Element classes from Python that was introduced in 3.3.0, so upgrading is warmly encouraged for any previous 3.3 version. The documentation is here: http://lxml.de/ Download: http://lxml.de/files/lxml-3.3.3.tgz Signature: http://lxml.de/files/lxml-3.3.3.tgz.asc Changelog: http://lxml.de/3.3/changes-3.3.3.html Github: https://github.com/lxml/lxml/commit/5ad64a7b6882fdf1d034e319e956ff53d1f85ac1 This release was built using Cython 0.20.1. If you are interested in commercial support or customisations for the lxml package, please contact me directly. Have fun, Stefan 3.3.3 (2014-03-04) ================== Bugs fixed ---------- * LP#1287118: Crash when using Element subtypes with ``__slots__``. Other changes ------------- * The internal classes ``_LogEntry`` and ``_Attrib`` can no longer be subclassed from Python code.

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Question about iterparse()
by Kun JIN 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

Hello, everyone I'm working for extracting text from wikipedia, and now i have a trouble about parser the big file 500GB with iterparse(), i show that problem with example in attached-file: "tmp.xml" is input corpus "t.xml" is result "extraction.py" is program Python, like below: #! /usr/bin/python # -*- coding:utf-8 -*- from lxml import etree ns = "http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.8/" node_find = "{%s}%s"%(ns,"ns") f1 = "tmp.xml" tree = etree.iterparse(f1,events=("end",), tag=node_find) for event, elem in tree: if elem.text == "0": print etree.tostring(elem.getparent(), encoding="utf-8", pretty_prin xml_declaration=True) elem.clear() while elem.getprevious() is not None: del elem.getparent()[0] break using this script, i find at first tag <ns> and if text of <ns> is "0", give back all node from his parent. but, i don't have all the node, look "t.xml", i have only 15 <revision>, it's too strange. i don't know how to do, can somebody can help? Thank you in advance! Kun JIN

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