reading plist files

[William Purcell]

Hi,
I'm trying to write a bookmark synchronizer from Firefox/Foxmarks to Safari.
The Firefox side of things will be fairly easy and I thought the Safari side
would be too. Right now I am simply attempting to read my Bookmarks.plist
file using plistlib.py. Here is my attempt to read the file along with the
traceback that I get...

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In [1]: import plistlib

In [2]: plistlib.Plist.fromFile('Bookmarks.plist')
fileobj ---> <open file 'Bookmarks.plist', mode 'r' at 0x8e45d10>
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<class 'xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError'>    Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/william/williamFAT/utilities/mac_projs/<ipython console> in <module>()

/usr/lib/python2.5/plistlib.py in fromFile(cls, pathOrFile)
    339     def fromFile(cls, pathOrFile):
    340         """Deprecated. Use the readPlist() function instead."""
--> 341         rootObject = readPlist(pathOrFile)
    342         plist = cls()
    343         plist.update(rootObject)

/usr/lib/python2.5/plistlib.py in readPlist(pathOrFile)
     75         didOpen = 1
     76     p = PlistParser()
---> 77     rootObject = p.parse(pathOrFile)
     78     if didOpen:
     79         pathOrFile.close()

/usr/lib/python2.5/plistlib.py in parse(self, fileobj)
    401         parser.CharacterDataHandler = self.handleData
    402         print 'fileobj --->',fileobj
--> 403         parser.ParseFile(fileobj)
    404         return self.root
    405

<class 'xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError'>: not well-formed (invalid token):
line 1, column 8


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Also, I can read other plist files fine such as SignaturesByAccount.plist
and AddressBookMe.plist.

I am trying to do this in Ubuntu with Python2.5.

The xml version might also be useful...
In [4]: xml.__version__
Out[4]: '0.8.4'

Thanks,
Bill
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