Finished Week 5 (Parsing XML)

Author: jeremy-wl

Week 5 Web Services and XML/Assignments/extracting_data_from_xml.py

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+import urllib.request as ur
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
+
+url = input('Enter location: ')
+# 'http://python-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_42.xml'
+
+total_number = 0
+sum = 0
+
+print('Retrieving', url)
+xml = ur.urlopen(url).read()
+print('Retrieved', len(xml), 'characters')
+
+tree = et.fromstring(xml)
+counts = tree.findall('.//count')
+for count in counts:
+    sum += int(count.text)
+    total_number += 1
+
+print('Count:', total_number)
+print('Sum:', sum)
+
+
+# ======= Outputs ======
+# Enter location: http://python-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_42.xml
+# Retrieving http://python-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_42.xml
+# Retrieved 4204 characters
+# Count: 50
+# Sum: 2482