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Michael Emond
Michael Emond

Reputation: 131

python, how to add variable value from xml response?

I am getting an xml response containing data from a web site. I want to pick out the data within specific xml tags <dcdIntegerValue>531</dcdIntegerValue> and assign it to a variable. Currently I'm using "response_body" to get said response output. I am using python 2.7 and httplib if that matters. I'm not sure where to find information on how to do this. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Mike

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1371

Answers (2)

nakih
nakih

Reputation: 63

You either can use pythons ElementTree:

edit: i forgot every item in this list is a type of element. You should get the contents by instead using:

number = int(item.text)

import xml.etree.ElementTree as et

xmltree = et.ElementTree(file="yourxmlfile.xml")
intList = xmltree.getroot().iterfind(".//dcdIntegerValue")

for item in intList:
    number =int(item.text)
    #do whatever you want with your number

http://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html

Upvotes: 4

FrsECM
FrsECM

Reputation: 245

Why don't use a regex ?

import re
import urllib
stream=urllib.urlopen("http://....")
result=re.search('<dcdIntegerValue>(\d*)</dcdIntegerValue>',stream.read(),re.IGNORECASE)
if result:
     value=result.group(1)

Maybe a little "brutal" but i think it works.

Inspired by : extract contents of regex

Upvotes: 2

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