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    Thread: Python debuggers
Post: RE: Python debuggers

Thanks @snippsat **smile**
jehoshua General Coding Help 8 1,340 Jul-20-2023, 07:48 AM
    Thread: Using Python to connect to an XML ?
Post: RE: Using Python to connect to an XML ?

(Jul-08-2023, 02:40 AM)deanhystad Wrote: I cannot disagree much more. I find pysimplegui anything but simple. @deanhystad - What GUI do you recommend please ?
jehoshua General Coding Help 12 1,989 Jul-11-2023, 12:34 AM
    Thread: Python debuggers
Post: RE: Python debuggers

Visual Studio Code is certainly very powerful, thanks for recommending it. There certainly are deeper layers of variables, both locals and globals, and then variables within variables. One can easily ...
jehoshua General Coding Help 8 1,340 Jul-10-2023, 10:57 PM
    Thread: Using Python to connect to an XML ?
Post: RE: Using Python to connect to an XML ?

(Jul-08-2023, 02:40 AM)deanhystad Wrote: I find pysimplegui anything but simple. Oh well, 'horses for courses' as they say. **biggrin**
jehoshua General Coding Help 12 1,989 Jul-08-2023, 03:39 AM
    Thread: Using Python to connect to an XML ?
Post: RE: Using Python to connect to an XML ?

Now needing to display the data from the XML to a GUI, the example at https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleG...1624781486 will be of a great help. Of all the GUI's for Python, PySimpleGUI is by far ...
jehoshua General Coding Help 12 1,989 Jul-08-2023, 01:24 AM
    Thread: Python debuggers
Post: RE: Python debuggers

(Jul-07-2023, 03:37 AM)deanhystad Wrote: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio are different things. Your link is to Visual Studio Code, or VSCode. Both Visual Studio and VSCode can do Python, but ...
jehoshua General Coding Help 8 1,340 Jul-07-2023, 04:38 AM
    Thread: Using Python to connect to an XML ?
Post: RE: Using Python to connect to an XML ?

I needed to specify 'parent'. On a find_all() it wouldn't work, but on a find() it worked #!/usr/bin/python from bs4 import BeautifulSoup with open('testxml.xml', 'r') as f: file = f.read() so...
jehoshua General Coding Help 12 1,989 Jul-07-2023, 01:21 AM
    Thread: Python debuggers
Post: RE: Python debuggers

Thanks @snippsat . I had to lookup what REPL meant and found it to be "Read-Eval-Print Loop". I installed ptpython and IPythonIPython . The first seemed only an editor that wasn't even checking synta...
jehoshua General Coding Help 8 1,340 Jul-07-2023, 12:40 AM
    Thread: Using Python to connect to an XML ?
Post: RE: Using Python to connect to an XML ?

The data is of the format >> <PAYEE matchingenabled="0" email="" name="Transfers - inter account" reference="" id="P000001"> <ADDRESS street="" telephone="" state="" city="" postco...
jehoshua General Coding Help 12 1,989 Jul-06-2023, 12:40 AM
    Thread: Python debuggers
Post: Python debuggers

What do you use ? There is the command line pdb at https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html Then three GUI ones mentioned at https://stackoverflow.com/posts/4929267/revisions , PyDev , Wing Python...
jehoshua General Coding Help 8 1,340 Jul-04-2023, 10:51 PM
    Thread: Using Python to connect to an XML ?
Post: RE: Using Python to connect to an XML ?

Thanks, I had to install BeautifulSoup4 even though I had BeautifulSoup installed. That works fine from bs4 import BeautifulSoup with open('testxml.xml', 'r') as f: file = f.read() soup = Beaut...
jehoshua General Coding Help 12 1,989 Jul-04-2023, 10:25 PM
    Thread: Using Python to connect to an XML ?
Post: RE: Using Python to connect to an XML ?

Now changed to from bs4 import BeautifulSoup with open('testxml.xml', 'r') as f: file = f.read() # 'xml' is the parser used. For html files, which BeautifulSoup is typically used for, it would be ...
jehoshua General Coding Help 12 1,989 Jul-04-2023, 05:03 AM
    Thread: Using Python to connect to an XML ?
Post: RE: Using Python to connect to an XML ?

I followed the guide at https://stackabuse.com/parsing-xml-with-...in-python/ , some test code from bs4 import BeautifulSoup with open('xmlfile', 'r') as f: file = f.read() # 'xml' is the parser u...
jehoshua General Coding Help 12 1,989 Jul-04-2023, 04:18 AM
    Thread: Using Python to connect to an XML ?
Post: RE: Using Python to connect to an XML ?

(Jun-27-2023, 07:25 AM)Gribouillis Wrote: I understand that KMyMoney can save its data in a SQLite 3 database. You could then export the database tables to spreadsheets by various means, this is a ...
jehoshua General Coding Help 12 1,989 Jun-27-2023, 09:15 AM
    Thread: Using Python to connect to an XML ?
Post: Using Python to connect to an XML ?

Can I use Python to connect to an XML, and then based on the data and certain rules, create a spreadsheet similar to OpenOffice calc ? Or it doesn't have to specifically be a spreadsheet, but simply ...
jehoshua General Coding Help 12 1,989 Jun-27-2023, 04:12 AM
    Thread: Modifying a date format
Post: RE: Modifying a date format

(Oct-28-2022, 11:23 PM)jehoshua Wrote: Yes, I'll create some test data. Thanks Some test data at https://pastebin.com/raw/FnueXARj
jehoshua General Coding Help 17 3,006 Oct-29-2022, 08:44 PM
    Thread: Modifying a date format
Post: RE: Modifying a date format

(Oct-29-2022, 03:10 PM)DeaD_EyE Wrote: This should work Thanks, yes it works fine now as: import datetime input_format = "D%m/%d'%Y" output_format = "D%m/%d/%Y" f = open("ANCU.qif","r") lines = f...
jehoshua General Coding Help 17 3,006 Oct-29-2022, 08:27 PM
    Thread: Modifying a date format
Post: RE: Modifying a date format

(Oct-28-2022, 10:59 PM)rob101 Wrote: I'm guessing that the list object contains more than that. Yes, I'll create some test data. Thanks
jehoshua General Coding Help 17 3,006 Oct-28-2022, 11:23 PM
    Thread: Modifying a date format
Post: RE: Modifying a date format

(Oct-28-2022, 12:53 PM)DeaD_EyE Wrote: import datetime input_format = "D%d/%m'%Y" output_format = "%d/%m/%Y" datetime.datetime.strptime("D4/7'2004", input_format).strftime(output_format) Thank you...
jehoshua General Coding Help 17 3,006 Oct-28-2022, 11:20 PM
    Thread: Modifying a date format
Post: RE: Modifying a date format

(Oct-28-2022, 10:23 AM)rob101 Wrote: As I had 10 mins spare, I've come up with a possible solution: Thanks, I added a loop to read the file, code now .. def format_date(date): for index, item i...
jehoshua General Coding Help 17 3,006 Oct-28-2022, 10:34 PM

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