[Tutor] Combine Scripts to Work Together...

[Joel Goldstick]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Sam Starfas via Tutor <tutor at python.org>
> wrote:
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>>  Hi,I am new to Python, but learning. (Hopefully the layout is readable)
>> I am having trouble getting two scripts to work together. What I want to
>> do is have the combinded script do the following:
>> 1. Read through a directory of xml files, not a single file, but many xml
>> files.2. Read each files contents.3. Pull out the <uicontrol> element
>> content (words between open and close tag)
>>    * For example: <uicontrol>Sam was here.</uicontrol>
>>    * The script would pull out the content "Sam was here" and print it to
>> a file.
>>
>> My scripts so
>> far:----------------------------------------------------------Script to get
>> <uicontol>
>> content----------------------------------------------------------import
>> xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
>> tree = ET.parse('TEST.xml')
>> root = tree.getroot()for uicontrol in root.iter('uicontrol'):
>>      print(uicontrol.text)
>>
>
> Make the above a function
> def get_uicontrol(f):
>
>> tree = ET.parse(f))
>> root = tree.getroot()for uicontrol in root.iter('uicontrol'):
>>      print(uicontrol.text)
>>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------Script to read
>> through the
>> files:----------------------------------------------------------import sys
>> import glob
>> import errnopath
>> ='/Users/sastarfa/Documents/Projects/Script-projects/Scripts/Pull-out-terms-between-elements/*.xml'
>> files = glob.glob(path)
>> for name in files: # 'file' is a builtin type, 'name' is a
>> less-ambiguousvariable name.
>>      try:
>>            with open(name) as f: # Noneed to specify 'r': this is the
>> default.
>>            sys.stdout.write(f.read())
>>
>>
> Make the above a function:
>
> def get_files(path):
>     glob.glob(path)
>     for name in files:
>          try:
>               with open(name) as f:
>                   get_uicontrol(f)
>
> oops, edited above two lines


> then at the end of your file do this:
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     get_files('/your/path/goes/here')
>
> get_files will loop to open each file, then call get_uicontrol on that
> open file.  get_uicontrol will find your tag, collect the text and print it
>
> I haven't tested this, but it is at least close
>
>
>> This is the area I get stuck. I can understand, write a script to run on
>> one a single file you input into the script, but getting a script to run on
>> a directory I am not understanding how to do this.
>> Thanks in advance for any and all help.Really appreciate the help.
>> Sam
>>
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