Enumerating ordered expat attributes with tuplets?

[Manuel Ebert]

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Ah, well. Don't know whether it meets your aesthetic standards, but:
 >>> my_list = ['tree', 'hug', 'flower', 'hug', 'bear', 'run']
 >>> my_list[0:len(a):2]
['tree', 'flower', 'bear']
 >>> my_list[1:len(a):2]
['hug', 'hug', 'run']

and hence

 >>> zip(my_list[0:len(a):2], my_list[1:len(a):2])
[('tree', 'hug'), ('flower', 'hug'), ('bear', 'run')]

and furthermore

 >>> for a, b in zip(my_list[0:len(a):2], my_list[1:len(a):2]):
...     print a, b
...
tree hug
flower hug
bear run

or the slightly less obfuscated:

 >>> for index in range(0, len(my_list), 2):
... 	print my_list[index], my_list[index + 1]
...	
tree hug
flower hug
bear run

On Sep 11, 2008, at 5:19 PM, andy_westken at hotmail.com wrote:

> On Sep 11, 4:04 pm, Manuel Ebert <maeb... at uos.de> wrote:
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>> Hi Andy,
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>> by the looks of it I'd say that the problem is that the second
>> parameter you passed to start_element is not a dictionary at all (the
>> clue is in the "AttributeError: 'LIST' object" ...).
>>
>>  >>> d = ['tree', 'house']
>>  >>> start_element("Thing", d)
>> Thing :
>> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'items'
>>  >>> d = {'tree': 'hug', 'flower' : 'eat'}
>>  >>> start_element("Thing", d)
>> Thing :   flower="eat"  tree="hug"
>>
>> Manuel
>>
>> On Sep 11, 2008, at 4:21 PM, andy_west... at hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>
>>> I'm new to Python and trying to pick up good, idiomatic usage right
>>> from the offset.
>>
>>> As I was familiar with Expat from C++ (directly and via expatpp) I'm
>>> trying to write a little script - using xml.parsers.expat - to  
>>> search
>>> and replace XML attribute values.
>>
>>> As I want the attributes to stay in order when the file is  
>>> written out
>>> (so I can check my results with a diff tool) I've set the parser's
>>> ordered_attributes attribute. But this has stopped the for loop
>>> working with the tuplets.
>>
>>> The relevant bit of code in my little test, using the default
>>> Dictionary for the attributes, is:
>>
>>> def start_element(name, attrs):
>>>     print "%s : " % name,
>>>     for (a,b) in attrs.items():
>>>         print " %s=\"%s\"" % (a,b),
>>
>>> But when I set ordered_attributes, first it doesn't like the items()
>>
>>>     AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'items'
>>
>>> And then it doesn't like the tuple
>>
>>>     ValueError: too many values to unpack
>>
>>> Do I have keep track of where I am (name, value, name, value, ...)
>>
>>> Or is there a way I can solve the problem with a tuple?
>>
>>> Thanks, Andy
>>> --
>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> Sorry!
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> I forgot to mention that when you set the parser's ordered_attributes
> attribute, it sends the "attrs" to start_element as a list, not a
> dictionary, in the order name, value, name, value, ...
>
> Andy
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