xml application advice

[Scott David Daniels]

William Purcell wrote:
> Scott David Daniels wrote:
>> William Purcell wrote:
>>> I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping
>>> network.  Namely a building sprinkler system.  This will be a
>>> command line program at first with the system described in xml....
>> If you are going to be doing a lot of tree walking, try etree.
>> Simple example:
>>
>>     import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET # or wherever you get ElementTree
>>
>>     def find_remote_and_path(node, path):
>>         for child in node:
>>             for result in walks(child, path + [node]): yield result
>>         if node.tag == 'node' and node.get('hydraulically_most_remote'
>>                                            ) == 'True':
>>             yield node, path
>>
>>
>>     tree = ET.parse('ex.xml')
>>     for node, path in find_remote_and_path(tree.getroot(), []):
>>         for t in path:
>>             print '    ', t.tag, t.get('id', '-')
>>         print node.tag, ', '.join(sorted('%s=%r' % pair
>>                                         for pair in node.items()))
>>
>>
>> --Scott David Daniels
>> Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
> 
> Scott, Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I am having a little trouble finding where to import `walks` from.
> 
> Bill
Sorry, renamed and forgot to repaste.
walks is just find_remote_and_path