string manipulation.

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2010-07-27, gerardob <gberbeglia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to read an xml using minidom from python library xml.dom
>
> This is the xml file:
> ---------------------------------
><rm_structure>
> 	<resources>
> 		<resource>
> 		AB
> 		<Capacity>100</Capacity>
> 		<NumberVirtualClasses>
> 		2
> 		</NumberVirtualClasses>
> 		</resource>
> 	</resources>
></rm_structure>
> ----------------------------------
> This is the python code:
> --------------------------------
> from xml.dom import minidom
> doc= minidom.parse("example.xml")
> resources_section = doc.getElementsByTagName('resources')
> list_resources = resources_section[0].getElementsByTagName('resource')
>
> for r in list_resources:
> 	name = r.childNodes[0].nodeValue
>         print name
> 	print len(name)
> ---------------------------------
> The problem is that the nodeValue stored in the variable 'name' is not "AB"
> (what i want) but instead it is a string that has length of 8 and it seems
> it include the tabs and/or other things.
> How can i get the string "AB" without the other stuff?

Check out the strip member function.

  name = r.childNodes[0].nodeValue.strip()

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Neil Cerutti