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at April 14, 2011 00:36 by anarres
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from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import re
def strip_whitespace(my_string):
"""Removes spaces, tabs, and newline characters from a string.
\s matches any whitespace character, this is equivalent to the class [\t\n\r\f\v]."""
return re.sub("\s", "", my_string)
my_xml = """
<root>
<child>One</child>
<child>Two</child>
</root>
"""
my_xml = strip_whitespace(my_xml)
element = ET.XML(my_xml)
for subelement in element:
print subelement.text
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Parsing XML using's Python's ElementTree
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python, xml
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Python