Remote XML Parsing

[Laurent Pointal]

pyapplico at gmail.com wrote:

> On Mar 30, 5:56 pm, Laurent Pointal <laurent.poin... at limsi.fr> wrote:
>> pyappl... at gmail.com a écrit :
>>
>> > How can I parse a remote XML file with Python?
>> > And what will I be able to do with this XML file in Python?
>>
>> > Sorry if this is a noob-ish question.
>>
>> You can process XML data with Python as long as you can get it - you
>> will be able to do what you want with it.
>>
>> How do you access your remote file ?
>>
>> ...more details would be welcome...
> 
> Well I'll be happy to access in the way your comfortable with.

Net protocols -> urllib2 module
Local files (or network mounted files) -> open function
Remote call -> xmlrpc, omniORBpy, pyrpc...


Once you get the XML data... sax/dom/elementtree & Co (see Python docs, Dive
Into Python...).