i/o prob revisited

[saif.shakeel at gmail.com]

On May 18, 1:50 pm, half.ital... at gmail.com wrote:
> On May 18, 12:06 am, saif.shak... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >     I am parsing an xml file ,before that i have replaced a string in
> > the original xml file with another and made a new xml file which will
> > now be parsed.I am also opening some more files for output.The
> > following code shows some i/o commands.
> > file_input = raw_input("Enter The ODX File Path:")
> > input_xml = open(file_input,'r')
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> > (shortname,ext)=os.path.splitext(file_input)
> > f_open_out=shortname+".ini"
> > log=shortname+".xls"
> > test_file=shortname+"testxml.xml"
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> > saveout = sys.stdout
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> > xmlcont=input_xml.read()
> > input_xml.close()
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> > xmlcont=xmlcont.replace('localId','dataPackageId')
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> > output_file = open(test_file,"w")
> > output_file.write(xmlcont)
> > output_file.close()
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> > f_open=open(f_open_out, 'w')
> > logfile=open(log,"w")
> > sys.stdout = f_open
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> >              After this i have to parse the new xml file which is in
> > output_file .hence
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> > input_xml_sec = open(output_file,'r')
> > xmldoc = minidom.parse(input_xml_sec)
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> >                   But i am getting an error on this line
> > (input_xml_sec = open(output_file,'r')).I have tried to figure out
> > but
> > not able to debug.Can someone throw some light or anything they feel
> > could be going wrong somewhere.
> >                   How do i capture the error as it vanishes very
> > qucikly when i run through command prompt,(the idle envir gives
> > indentation errors for no reason(which runs perfectly from cmd
> > prompt),hence i dont run using conventional F5.
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ok i am able to trace the error ...It says:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Projects\ODX Import\code_ini\odxparse_mod.py", line 294, in
<module>
    input_xml_sec = open(output_file,'r')
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, file found
                        Any solutions.
                                Thanks