Python Programming help please

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:00:12 -0700

Hi there,

I got this txt file with following contents:

<GLOSSARY>
<INFO>
<NAME>My Glossary</NAME>
<INTRO>stuff</INTRO>

The above text is saved in test.txt file.

I need to write a python script that would load the above file as list of strings. I then need display only the text from <Name> to </Name> in python.

If anybody can help me please with the code. I've tried searching a lot on net but haven't found anything.

Thank You

Re: Python Programming help please

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:09:46 -0700

import re

name_block = re.compile('<Name>(?P<name>.*)</Name>')

def get_name_block():
    #open the file for reading
    file_name = "test.txt"
    f = open(file_name, 'r')
    
    #look through it one line at a time
    name_block = ""
    search_result = None
    for l in f:
        search_result = name_block.match(l)
        if search_result:
            name_block = search_result.groups[0]
    return name_block

That will have a problem if <Name>...</Name> spans over multiple lines, because "for l in f" pulls one line at a time. In that case, no one line would ever match the regex. Hope that works for you!

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