XML to dictionary?

[Paul Prescod]

> From: "John Jensen" <johnjensen at my-deja.com>
> I'm thinking that the best thing to do in this situation is just write a
> quick customized script, and not worry about using "fancy" libraries like
> xmllib, pyxie, etc.

I don't see what is "fancy" about xmllib and I can't imagine that
writing your own parser (is that what you mean by "quick customized
script") would be easier than using one that already exists.

For your task I think that you just have to override a couple of
methods. Writing a parser will be more work and it will be more fragile.

> From: "Darrell" <darrell at dorb.com>
> Here's my own hack at tag parsing http://www.dorb.com/darrell/xmlP/
> With wxPython it gives you a tree view of your tags. Replace the branches
> with dictionaries and away you go.
> 
> --Darrell

I'm a little surprised to see this comment in your code:

"""Convert this function to 'C' for real speed."""

Too masochistic to write it yourself only once?? :)

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