cmd app and xml

[kaklis at gmail.com]

On May 14, 7:10 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan... at behnel.de> wrote:
> kak... at gmail.com, 14.05.2010 12:46:
>
> > Hi there,
> > i'm writing a console app using the cmd library. I also use
> > xml.dom.minidom to parse an xml file that i get as a response to an
> > HTTP Post request.
> > with
> > data = response.read()
> > i get the xml response from the server.
> > i then feed the parser with that data.
> > myDoc = parse(data)
> > but it doesn't work.
>
> Note that "it doesn't work" is not a very complete description of the
> actual problem.
>
> > To make it work i open an xml file and the save the data to that file.
> > myDoc = parse('test.xml')
> > that worked.
> > But i don't want to use the local xml file?
> > What am i doing wrong?
>
> Not reading the docs?
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/xml.dom.minidom.html
>
> There is a parseString() function that does what you want.
>
> Stefan

ok, i missed that function.
Thank you so much!!
Antonis