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[castironpi at gmail.com]

On Feb 14, 5:31 pm, castiro... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Feb 14, 1:49 pm, Stefan Behnel <stefan... at behnel.de> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > castiro... at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Stefan Behnel wrote:
> > >> What I meant was: please state what you are trying to do. What you describe
> > >> are the environmental conditions and possible solutions that you are
> > >> thinking of, but it doesn't tell me what problem you are actually trying
> > >> to solve.
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> >http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal
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> > > What problem -am- I trying to solve?  Map the structure -in- to XML.
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> >http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise
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> > Is it a fixed structure you have, or are you free to use whatever you like?
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> > > Objects first.  Create.
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> >http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#writewell
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> > My guess is that this is supposed to mean: "I want to create Python objects
> > and then write their structure out as XML". Is that the right translation?
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> > There are many ways to do so, one is to follow these steps:
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> >http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify.html#tree-generation-with-the-e-f...
> > then maybe this:http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify.html#defining-additional-data-cla...
> > and finally this:http://codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html#serialisation
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> > But as I do not know enough about the problem you are trying to solve, except:
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> > > The use case is a simulated strategy tournament.
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> > I cannot tell if the above approach will solve your problem or not.
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> > Stefan
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> I was trying to start a discussion on a cool OO design.  Problem's
> kind of solved; downer, huh?
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> I haven't completed it, but it's a start.  I expect I'll post some
> thoughts along with progress.  Will Excel read it?  We'll see.
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> A design difference:
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> Worksheet= lambda parent: etree.SubElement( parent, "Worksheet" )
> Table= lambda parent: etree.SubElement( parent, "Table" )
> sheet= Worksheet( book ) #parent
> table= Table( sheet )
> vs.
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> table= Table() #empty table
> sheet= Worksheet( table= table ) #child
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> I want to call sheet.table sometimes.  Is there a lxml equivalent?- Hide quoted text -
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Minimize redundancy.  Are there some possibilities ignored, such as
reading a class structure from an existing Excel XML file, downloading
the official spec, and if one is coding in Windows, how bulky is the
equiavelent COM code?  One doesn't want to be re-coding the "wheel" if
it's big and hairy.