[Chicago] Need Python -2.4.3 help

[Jordan Bettis]

You could use a version of lxml that supports 2.4.3 and then parse the
XML with the ElementTree API

http://lxml.de/tutorial.html

On 03/17/2014 09:13 AM, Harry aman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new  to  Python.  The  installed  Python version  is  2.4.3  in
> Linux  and  our admins are not willing to upgrade  it due to other
> comparability  issues.
> 
> The issue  is  related  to  reading  XML  file  and convert  it to a 
> txt  file for further process.
> 
> Here's the code  example.
> #read  XML  file  and convert  into  text  file for further process
> from xml.dom.minidom import parse, parseString
> dom=parse('/mnt/usr/Test.xml')
> outf = open ('/mnt/usr/Test.txt','w')
> attr_list = [
> 'col1',
> 'col2',
> 'col3',
> 'col4'
> ]
> for row in dom.childNodes[0].getElementsByTagName('z:row'):
>     for attr in attr_list:
>         if attr in row.attributes.keys():
>             outf.write(row.attributes[attr].value.encode("utf-8")+"\t")
>         else: outf.write("\t")
>     outf.write("\n")
> outf.close()
> 
> I didn't  see any good example  to do this.   Please  let me know your
> suggestions.
> 
> Thanks  in Advance.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
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