[Tutor] Newbie to Python: enumerate XML tags (keys that will become headers) along with text (values) and write to CSV in one row (as opposed to "stacked" values with one header)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 25/06/2015 23:51, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 25/06/15 19:42, Saran Ahluwalia wrote:
>> My question can be found here:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31058100/enumerate-column-headers-in-csv-that-belong-to-the-same-tag-key-in-python
>>
>
> It would have been helpful to post the question here rather than just a
> link.
>
> However, having read it, I'm still not sure what you want to do?
> It seems your input file (the XML one?) has multiple ObjectGuid tags?
> And you want to write them out to a CSV file with a number appended
> (objectGuid_1, ObjectGuid_2 etc) Is that right? If so what exactly is
> the issue - it seems simple enough (given your obvious coding
> experience) to store a counter and create a new string each time you
> find a GUID tag?
>
> But I still don't understand how these tags relate to the rest of the
> data in the file? Are you only extracting the GUID and want one row per
> file? Or are you extracting multiple data structures and creating a row
> for each? In which case are the multiple GUID embedded in each data
> structure? I'm really not sure what you are trying to do.
>
>> Here is an additional sample sample of the XML that I am working with:
>
> I have no idea how that is supposed to help? It doesn't have any
> ObjectGUID tags that I can see? It is essentially meaningless
> data (to us).
>

I wouldn't be inclined to put too much into this, it's already been 
asked on the main mailing list and appears to be a follow up to an 
earlier thread.

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Mark Lawrence