This lab covers the basic components and structure for JSON and XML data files. This lab covers various methods for reading JSON and XML data into Python using json and ElementTree. The lab also overs ...

When dealing with XML, Python's ElementTree module is a great tool. It provides methods for parsing and creating XML data. To parse an XML file, first import the module and parse the file using ...

The ElementTree XML API offers a straightforward and user-friendly way to parse and generate XML data in Python. Since it’s part of Python’s standard library, there’s no need for any additional ...

Xmltodict With xmltodict, each element in an XML document gets converted into a dictionary (specifically an OrderedDictionary), which you then treat basically the same as you would JSON (or any Python ...

If you do a quick search online for XML parsing in Python, your two most common results are lxml and beautifulsoup. These both work, but using them feels less like opening a dictionary (as with JSON) ...

The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance is designed for sharing information between different word processing applications. This article highlights the basic structure of ODF files, some internals of ...

My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

The “horrible thing” in developer Erik Rose’s talk from this year’s PyCon is the Mediawiki syntax, but that’s just a jumping off point for one of the best overviews of data parsing that ...