File I/O

[Diez B. Roggisch]

jimburton wrote:

> 
> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>> Kirt wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > jimburton wrote:
>> >> Kirt wrote:
>> >> > Hi! I need some help in file I/O
>> >> >
>> >> > I have an xml file..
>> >> [snip]
>> >> See http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/
>> >
>> > i dont wanna parse the xml file..
>>
>> If you play soccer, do you insist on playing with a baseball bat?
>> 
> I've been known to open a bottle of wine with a pencil. Works fine.

Good to know that you can get drunk under any circumstances.

I have seen a bazillion bad xml/html parsing-hacks using regexes and the
like, which stopped working after somehow the xml came all in one line, or
some other implicit assumption about its layout failed to be met.