[Tutor] removing xml elements with ElementTree

2019-03-20 Thread street . sweeper
An opportunity to work in Python, and the necessity of working with some XML too large to visualize, got me thinking about an answer Alan Gauld had written to me a few years ago (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2015-June/105810.html). I have applied that information in this script, but

[Tutor] library terminology and importing

2016-02-21 Thread street . sweeper
Hello all, I often use now() and strftime() from datetime, but it seems like I can't import just those functions. The os module allows me to import like this: from os.path import join,expanduser but I get an error if I try from datetime.datetime import now, strftime But if I import all of os

Re: [Tutor] Python Certifications

2015-08-08 Thread street . sweeper
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015, at 04:55 PM, acolta wrote: > Hi, > > I am new in python, so just curios if there are any good and appreciated > python certification programs/courses ? I'm interested in this too, but some googling only finds a 4-part O'Reilly program that's no longer available. They're movi

[Tutor] removing nodes using ElementTree

2015-06-28 Thread street . sweeper
Hello all, I'm trying to merge and filter some xml. This is working well, but I'm getting one node that's not in my list to include. Python version is 3.4.0. The goal is to merge multiple xml files and then write a new one based on whether or not is in an include list. In the mock data below,

[Tutor] sql-like join on two lists or dictionaries

2015-02-14 Thread street . sweeper
Hello all, Basically what I have here is header and line data for sales or purchase orders, and I'm trying to do a sql-like join to bring them together (which ultimately I did because I couldn't figure this out :)). I've managed to get the files into python using string slicing, that's not a prob

[Tutor] python3 equivalent of coreutils stat command

2014-06-14 Thread street . sweeper
With the stat command in GNU coreutils, I can get a file's modification time, with timezone offset. For example, the output of "stat -c %y *" looks like 2014-02-03 14:48:17.0 -0200 2014-05-29 19:00:05.0 -0100 What I want to do is get the mtime in ISO8601 format, and I've

[Tutor] ElementTree, iterable container, depth of elements

2014-03-29 Thread street . sweeper
I'm trying to sort the order of elements in an xml file, mostly to make visual inspection/comparison easier. The example xml and code on http://effbot.org/zone/element-sort.htm get me almost what I need, but the xml I'm working with has the element I'm trying to sort on one level deeper. That pa

[Tutor] improvements on a renaming script

2014-03-09 Thread street . sweeper
Hello all, A bit of background, I had some slides scanned and a 3-character slice of the file name indicates what roll of film it was. This is recorded in a tab-separated file called fileNames.tab. Its content looks something like: p01 200511_autumn_leaves p02 200603_apple_plum_cherry_blo