Using Python to connect to an XML ?

[jehoshua]

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 = BeautifulSoup(file, 'xml')
payee = soup.find('PAYEE')

print(payee.attrs)      ## All attributes
print(payee['name'])    # Get a single one
print(payee.get('name'))    # Or - get a single one

address = soup.find('ADDRESS')
print(address.attrs)

python3 soup2.py

Output:
{'matchingenabled': '0', 'email': '', 'name': 'Transfers - inter account', 'reference': '', 'id': 'P000001'}
Transfers - inter account
Transfers - inter account
{'street': '', 'telephone': '', 'county': '', 'city': '', 'zipcode': ''}

I will need to read up on how to loop through the array "payee" and print all or filter some. Also to learn how to reference what I call a data subset. For example "ADDRESS" is a data subset (child) of both PAYEE and INSTITUTION (data 'parents'). Quite a bit of learning and reading up.

When I used to code with other programming languages, I found the learning curve not as steep if I can use a 'debug' to inspect arrays and variables, etc. I see Python has pdb.

I see there are some GUI ones also - https://stackoverflow.com/posts/4929267/revisions