Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:13:56 +0200 Organization: None Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <20c0b0fe-136b-4b01-b004-c55c6d47b299@googlegroups.com> <91432d7b-7233-4504-a725-22bc81637ea3@googlegroups.com> <991c5867-27d1-4e75-aa52-a7d47e626b74@googlegroups.com> <8001ac2b-c883-4ca1-a163-d118cc82295b@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de WWecGeXggsAn+fIjNegerw7ZQKHsTTKJl3wvMWQab83A== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'root': 0.04; 'expected.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'doesnt': 0.16; 'executed.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:dip0.t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'received:t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'tree': 0.18; 'xmlns=""': 0.23; 'import': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'specify': 0.27; 'does,': 0.29; 'code:': 0.29; 'print': 0.30; 'probably': 0.31; 'skip:s 30': 0.31; 'statement': 0.32; '"")': 0.33; 'could': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'subject:from': 0.39; 'skip:e 20': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'received:de': 0.40; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.62; 'here': 0.66; 'finally': 0.70 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p57bd9c4e.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: KNode/4.13.3 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: <20c0b0fe-136b-4b01-b004-c55c6d47b299@googlegroups.com> <91432d7b-7233-4504-a725-22bc81637ea3@googlegroups.com> <991c5867-27d1-4e75-aa52-a7d47e626b74@googlegroups.com> <8001ac2b-c883-4ca1-a163-d118cc82295b@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:107593 harirammanohar@gmail.com wrote: > Here is the code: Finally ;) > import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET > ET.register_namespace("", "http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee") I don't know what this does, but probably not what you expected. > tree = ET.parse('sample.xml') > root = tree.getroot() > > for servlet in root.findall('servlet'): > servletname = servlet.find('servlet-name').text I think you have to specify the namespace: for servlet in root.findall('{http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee}servlet'): servletname = servlet.find( '{http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee}servlet-name').text > if servletname == "controller": You could have added a print statement to verify that the line below is executed. > root.remove(servlet) > > tree.write('output.xml') > > This will work if doesnt have below... > > xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee > http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"