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Numbering the sentences inside a <P> in a .xml file?

I’m just starting out in programming, so this problem is very trivial, except for me. I have a .xml file containing content like:

<p> sentence1. sentence2. sentence3.</p>
<p> sentence1. </p>

Now I have written a script with BeautifulSoup to append each single paragraph ending with a STRING, so it looks like:

<p> sentence1. sentence2. sentence3. STRING</p>
<p> sentence1. STRING </p>

In the < p > that contain only 1 sentence that is all I want to do. But if a < p > contains more than I sentence, I want to add the STRING to each sentence ending + the sentence number. For example the upper paragraph would be:

<p> sentence1. STRING1 sentence2. STRING2 sentence3. STRING3 </p>

Here is my working script for 1 sentence with the .append method, but I couldn’t get it to work for multiple sentences. Any help would be appreciated!

soup = BeautifulSoup(xmlfile)
p = norm.findAll("p")

for i in p:
    dotsplit = re.compile(r'\. \w')
    sentences = dotsplit.split(i.text)

    if len(sentences) == 1:
        appendix = "STRING"
        i.append(appendix)
        print i

    if len(sentences) > 1:
        for x in sentences:
            sentencenumber = ???????  
            # Should equal (index of sentences)+1,  meaning sentences[0] = 1
            appendix = sentencenumber + "STRING"
            i.append(appendix)
            print i

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly:

if len(sentences) == 1:
    print sentences[0] + 'STRING'
elif len(sentences) > 1:
    isentences = ('%s%s%d' % (s, 'STRING', i) for i, s in enumerate(sentences, 1))
    print ' '.join(isentences)

I dont know how to append it after each sentence

BeautifulSoup documentation say that you must use method tag.string.replace_with instead of tag.append:

    isentences = ('%s%s%d' % (s, 'STRING', i) for i, s in enumerate(sentences, 1))
    i.string.replace_with(' '.join(isentences))