Question

Obviously , I’m new to Python.

I would like to use StringIO in my code below : to extract example.xml

 import os
os.chdir('d:/py/xml/')


from lxml import etree
from StringIO import StringIO

#----------------------------------------------------------------------
def parseXML(xmlFile):
    """
    Parse the xml
    """
    f = open(xmlFile)
    xml = f.read()
    f.close()

    tree = etree.parse(StringIO(xml))
    context = etree.iterparse(StringIO(xml))
    for action, elem in context:
        if not elem.text:
            text = 'None'
        else:
            text = elem.text
        print (elem.tag + ' => ' + text)

if __name__ == "__main__":

parseXML("example.xml")

But I keep getting this msg

Syntax Error: from io import import StringIO: d:\py\xml\example.py, line 621
File “d:\py\xml\example.py”, line 6, in ?
from io import import StringIO

I did google but it said to import the io model and use io.StringIO or io.BytesIO for text or Data…

Can anyone please tell me, how can I actually do that ?

Thanks

Answer 1

In Python3, StringIO is in io:

from io import StringIO

(Not from io import import StringIO, the keyword import goes only once.)

Note the the 2to3 script will do this change for you automatically.