[Tutor] identifying and parsing string in text file

[Marc Tompkins]

Sure sounds like XML to me...  I'm just snatching a moment from Saturday
chores to type this, but there are a bunch of modules available for XML
manipulation - elementtree is built-in; I personally prefer Amara - and I'll
bet that a few minutes spent with the docs for either module will tell you
what you need to know.

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Bryan Fodness <bryan.fodness at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a large file that has many lines like this,
>
> <element tag="300a,0014" vr="CS" vm="1" len="4"
> name="DoseReferenceStructureType">SITE</element>
> I would like to identify the line by the tag (300a,0014) and then grab the
> name (DoseReferenceStructureType) and value (SITE).
>
> I would like to create a file that would have the structure,
>
>      DoseReferenceStructureType = Site
>      ...
>      ...
>
> Also, there is a possibility that there are multiple lines with the same
> tag, but different values.  These all need to be recorded.
>
> So far, I have a little bit of code to look at everything that is
> available,
>
>      for line in open(str(sys.argv[1])):
>           i_line = line.split()
>           if i_line:
>                if i_line[0] == "<element":
>                     a = i_line[1]
>                     b = i_line[5]
>                     print "%s     |     %s" %(a, b)
>
> but do not see a clever way of doing what I would like.
>
> Any help or guidance would be appreciated.
>
> Bryan
>
>
>
>
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