Delightful Python

[DaveP]

"Mike Brown" <mike at skew.org> wrote in
news:3dba5dfb$1_1 at omega.dimensional.com: 

>> Mixing that with some Java software from Danny,
>> http://www.isacat.net/2001/code/CSVtoXML.htm
>>  I came up with a working
>> program in a couple of days, without a frown, in fact with
>> quite a few smiles. Eg. when I had to escape & and non ascii
>> characters, a one line addition in python.
>>   Only on one occasion did I find some code that didn't do what I
>> expected.
>> My only documentation was that delivered with 2.2, clear, concise
>>  well written and well indexed.
>>
>> Many thanks pythoneers, a delight to use.
>>
>> Regards DaveP.
> 
> Python could certainly replace that Java bit. One way of going about
> it is at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66003
> ... though I'd be inclined to make it generate SAX events rather than
> paste together strings.

Hi Mike. Still catching up after a week away. In fact I had to dump the 
Java, it didn't handle a case I had, data which contained CR characters 
in
double quoted fields, so I used a python csv parser in the end!
 Some nice ideas in your reference though.

I like the way the java picked its tags to use from an external file,
which makes it infinitely flexible. I now use it in a batch file for 5 
files! 

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/159100

Regards DaveP