replacing string in xml file

[saif.shakeel at gmail.com]

On May 8, 4:30 pm, Stefan Behnel <stefan.behnel-n05... at web.de> wrote:
> saif.shak... at gmail.com schrieb:
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> > Hi,
> >      I need to replace a string in xml file with something else.Ex
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> > - <SERVICEPARAMETER id="_775" Semantics="subfunction" DDORef="_54">
> >   <SHORTNAME>rate</SHORTNAME>
> >   <LONGNAME>rate</LONGNAME>
> >   <VALUE role="constant" DataType="unsigned" value="1" />
> >   <BYTEPOSITION role="position" BytePos="1" />
> >   </SERVICEPARAMETER>
> > - <SERVICEPARAMETER id="_776" Semantics="localId" DDORef="_54">
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> >                                      Here i have opened an xml
> > file(small part is pasted here).I want to replace the word 'localId'
> > with 'dataPackageID' wherever it comes in xml file.I tried this but
> > didnt work:
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> > import sys
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> > file_input = raw_input("Enter The ODX File Path:")
> > input_xml = open(file_input,'r')
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> This should say
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>   input_xml = open(file_input,'r').read()
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> > input_xml.replace('localId','dataPackageId')
> >                      This gives error  ---> AttributeError: 'file'
> > object has no attribute 'replace'
> >         Can someone help me .
> >                   Thanks
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There is no error now,but the string is not being replaced,It remains
the same,should we save the opened file or something