parsing XML

[Stefan Behnel]

kaklis at gmail.com, 14.05.2010 16:57:
> Hi to all, let's say we have the following Xml
> <team>
>    <player name='Mick Fowler' age='27' height='1.96m'>
>      <points>17.1</points>
>      <rebounds>6.4</rebounds>
>    </player>
>    <player name='Ivan Ivanovic' age='29' height='2.04m'>
>      <points>15.5</points>
>      <rebounds>7.8</rebounds>
>    </player>
> </team>
>
> How can i get the players name, age and height?

Here's an overly complicated solution, but I thought that an object 
oriented design would help here.


   import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

   class Player(object):
      def __init__(self, name, age, height):
          self.name, self.age, self.height = name, age, height

   attributes = ['name', 'age', 'height']

   players = []
   for _, element in ET.iterparse("teamfile.xml"):
       if element.tag == 'player':
           players.append(
               Player(*[ element.get(attr) for attr in attributes ]))

   for player in players:
       print player.name, player.age, player.height


Stefan