parsing response from SOAPpy request
Larry Bates
larry.bates at websafe.com
Fri Aug 31 19:42:10 EDT 2007
seancron wrote:
> I'm using SOAPpy to access weather data from the NOAA National Digital
> Forecast Database XML Web Service [1] and I've been having
> trouble figuring out how to parse the data.
>
> The response comes back as XML document but when I check it with
> type(result) it shows the the response is a string. Does anyone have
> any
> suggestions on getting relevant data?
>
> Thanks,
> -Sean
>
> [1] http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/
>
XML data is just a string of characters. Use elementree xml parser (built into
Python 2.5 available for download for prior versions) to parse it for what you
want to extract.
-Larry
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