Question

I would need some help in python. I’m new in python. I used to program a lot in Objective-C.

In Objective-C I was able to save a NSDictionary as a xml file and load it directly with a simple command. Here is an example of a xml dictionary I saved:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>1</key>
    <string>Object One</string>
    <key>2</key>
    <string>Object Two</string>
    <key>3</key>
    <string>Object Three</string>
</dict>
</plist>

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If I load it in Objective-C , I can directly get the dictionary as a NSDictionary.

So my question is: how can I do that easily in Python. I found some stuff using parsers such as lxml. I managed to load the data but I was not able to get a dictionary with only the keys and the values.
I searched lot on the internet but wasn’t able to find something suitable.
Does anyone has an idea or an advice?

I tried this: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/410469-xml-as-dictionary/
but I didn’t manage to make it work.

In advance, Thank you very much!

Answer 1

Use plistlib: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/plistlib.html

pl = readPlist(pathOrFile)
print(pl["1"])