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| From | Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match |
| Date | 2016-04-25 13:37 +0300 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <lf5lh42rn2k.fsf@ling.helsinki.fi> (permalink) |
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harirammanohar@gmail.com writes:
> On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 3:19:15 PM UTC+5:30, hariram...@gmail.com wrote:
[- -]
>> Here is the code:
>>
>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
>> ET.register_namespace("", "http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee")
>> tree = ET.parse('sample.xml')
>> root = tree.getroot()
>>
>> for servlet in root.findall('servlet'):
>> servletname = servlet.find('servlet-name').text
>> if servletname == "controller":
>> root.remove(servlet)
>>
>> tree.write('output.xml')
[- -]
> By the way i didnt get any error message and i am using version 3.4.3
Right. The parsing succeeds but no 'servlet' elements are found and the
loop simply has no effect. I may be missing some technical detail, but I
think the 'servlet' elements in the document are in the default
namespace (because one was declared) while your .findall and .find calls
are looking for a 'servlet' element that is in no namespace at all. I
seem to remember that there is such a distinction in XML.
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delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-18 00:07 -0700
RE: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Joaquin Alzola <Joaquin.Alzola@lebara.com> - 2016-04-18 07:49 +0000
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-18 01:52 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-18 21:01 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-21 03:17 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-21 13:24 +0200
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-22 02:00 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-22 02:14 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-22 11:50 +0200
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-24 23:24 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-21 16:32 +0300
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-22 01:59 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-22 11:24 +0200
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-22 14:10 +0300
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-24 23:29 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-25 10:17 +0300
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-25 02:49 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-25 02:53 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-25 13:37 +0300
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-25 12:13 +0200
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-25 13:39 +0300
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-25 04:02 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-25 14:28 +0300
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-25 04:40 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-25 15:00 +0300
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-25 14:33 +0200
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammanohar@gmail.com - 2016-04-26 03:31 -0700
Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-25 13:24 +0300
RE: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Joaquin Alzola <Joaquin.Alzola@lebara.com> - 2016-04-25 10:19 +0000
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