cmd app and xml

[Stefan Behnel]

kaklis at gmail.com, 14.05.2010 12:46:
> Hi there,
> i'm writing a console app using the cmd library. I also use
> xml.dom.minidom to parse an xml file that i get as a response to an
> HTTP Post request.
> with
> data = response.read()
> i get the xml response from the server.
> i then feed the parser with that data.
> myDoc = parse(data)
> but it doesn't work.

Note that "it doesn't work" is not a very complete description of the 
actual problem.


> To make it work i open an xml file and the save the data to that file.
> myDoc = parse('test.xml')
> that worked.
> But i don't want to use the local xml file?
> What am i doing wrong?

Not reading the docs?

http://docs.python.org/library/xml.dom.minidom.html

There is a parseString() function that does what you want.

Stefan