Monthly Archives: January 2021

Using the ElementTree library in Module xml Example 1: Selecting elements with findall import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET input = '''<stuff> <users> <user x="x1"> <id>001</id> <name>John</name> </user> <user x="x2"> <id>002</id> <name>Sam</name> </user> </users> </stuff>''' stuff = ET.fromstring(input) lst = stuff.findall('users/user') print('User count:', len(lst)) for item in lst: print('Name:', item.find('name').text) print('ID:', item.find('id').text) print('Attribute:', item.get('x'))   Example 2:

Using Sockets The following is similar to a telnet session, where we first connect to the server, we submit a GET request, and we read the response. import socket mysock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) mysock.connect( ('data.pr4e.org', 80) ) cmd = 'GET HTTP://data.pr4e.org/romeo.txt HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n'.encode() mysock.send(cmd) while True: data = mysock.recv(512) if (len(data) < 1): break print(data.decode()) mysock.close()

To use regular expressions, import re. Use re.search() to see if a string matches a regular expression. Use re.findall() to extract strings that match a regular expression. Reference: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html Match a Regular Expression import re fileH = open('file.txt') for line in fileH: line = line.rstrip() if re.search('From: ', line): print(line) Extract Substring Matching a Regular

A tuple is an immutable list of values.  Iteration and indexes work the same way as lists, but they cannot be modified.  While list literals use square brackets, tuple literals use parenthesis. x = (1,4,6) print(x[0]) 1 for val in x: print(val) Assignment (x,y) = (4,'Fred') print(y) Fred print(x) 4 Iteration Method items() in dictionary

A dictionary is a collection that stores data in key/value pairs and is equivalent to a java map.  Keys can be of any immutable type. Create items = dict() # or items = {} items['apple'] = 12 items['grape'] = 5 items['orange'] = 7 print(items) {'apple': 12, 'grape': 5, 'orange': 7} print(items['apple']) 12 otherItems = {'apple':

A list is an ordered collection that can contain elements of any different type, including other lists.  Iteration on a list can be performed through a for-in loop.  Lists are mutable. print([1, 'two', 3]) print([]) Specific items in a list can be retrieved using indexes: list = [1,2,3,4] first = list[0] Range Function The range

This entry provides code to read text files in python.  The open function returns a handle that can be treated as a sequence of strings.  The file handle also has a read method that returns the file content in a string. Reading Files A file handle open for read can be treated as a sequence