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# 8  
Old 08-18-2011
There's another reason now I'd much prefer someone to just tell me how to edit the python script, but going by the thread's title, I don't think we'd be getting anyone from python over here.

Though I doubt Clear Channel Communications would do something like that, I suppose THEY could be hacked and that would happen. Or even random data corruption could wreak havoc.
# 9  
Old 08-18-2011
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Originally Posted by natedawg1013
There's another reason now I'd much prefer someone to just tell me how to edit the python script, but going by the thread's title, I don't think we'd be getting anyone from python over here.
If I knew Python I'd try it. The language being Python, I suspect it's a brute-force approach anyway: import magic-xml-library; stuff=magic-xml-load("file.xml"); print(stuff);

There's tons and tons of libraries to do this, but nothing easy. It all becomes modular tree-walking multi-callback nonsense which kind of rules out a nice-looking script taking less than a page. I've been trying for a while to come up with something better, but as you might figure by now, it's a far harder problem than it looks.
# 10  
Old 08-19-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by natedawg1013
There's another reason now I'd much prefer someone to just tell me how to edit the python script...
Perhaps this will help you get started:

Code:
$ cat foo.xml
<foo a="1">
    <bar b="2" c="Some string">
    </bar>
</foo>

Code:
$ cat foo.py
from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
t = ElementTree()
t.parse('foo.xml')
print t.find('bar').get('c')

Code:
$ python foo.py
Some string


Regards,
Alister

---------- Post updated at 11:44 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:32 PM ----------

A slightly more useful example:
Code:
 cat foo.xml
<foo a="1">
    <bar b="1" c="Some string">
    </bar>
    <bar b="2" c="Another string">
    </bar>
    <bar b="3" c="One last string">
    </bar>
</foo>

Code:
from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
t = ElementTree()
t.parse('foo.xml')
for b in t.findall('bar'):
        print '%s: %s' % (b.get('b'), b.get('c'))

Code:
$ python foo.py
1: Some string
2: Another string
3: One last string

Regards,
Alister
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# 11  
Old 08-19-2011
Thank you for the replies, but if working in python from the original script, getting the information from the XML is already set up. What I'd need now is help with the other annoyances like setting up command-line arguments, etc. in my starred list. Otherwise, I'll do some research and get back to you guys with the final result.
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