how to read config file in xml formate using python

Question

How to read the values from the config file which is in XML format looks below.here the tags name1,name2 will increase like name4,name5...

<config> 
    <name>
        <name1>xxxxxxxxx</name1>
        <name2>yyyyyyyyy</name2>
        <name3>zzzzzzzzz</name3>
    </name>
    <company>
        <loc1>1234</loc1> 
        <loc2>1242</loc2> 
        <loc3>1212</loc3> 
    </company>
</config>

What have you tried so far? ElementTree and lxml are well-suited for the task. — tdelaney
– tdelaney, Commented May 22, 2018 at 5:48

Yuguang · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-22 06:24:54Z

2

I think this is better.

import xml.dom.minidom as minidom
dic={}
dom = minidom.parse("filename")
root = dom.documentElement                        #take name1 as example
dic['name1']=root.getElementsByTagName('name1')[0].firstChild.data

answered May 22, 2018 at 6:24

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salparadise · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-22 05:51:07Z

You can use the standard library xml package to parse an xml document.

For example:

In [91]: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

In [92]: data = """
    ...: <config>
    ...:   <name>
    ...:   <name1>xxxxxxxxx</name1>
    ...:   <name2>yyyyyyyyy</name2>
    ...:   <name3>zzzzzzzzz</name3>
    ...: </name>
    ...: <company>
    ...: <loc1>1234</loc1>
    ...: <loc2>1242</loc2>
    ...: <loc3>1212</loc3>
    ...: </company>
    ...: </config>
    ...: """

In [93]:

In [93]: x = ET.fromstring(data)

In [94]: [each.text for each in x.find('.//name')]
Out[94]: ['xxxxxxxxx', 'yyyyyyyyy', 'zzzzzzzzz']

Or if you want a dictionary:

In [95]: {each.tag:each.text for each in x.find('.//name')}
Out[95]: {'name1': 'xxxxxxxxx', 'name2': 'yyyyyyyyy', 'name3': 'zzzzzzzzz'}

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