Outline for November 9, 2023

Reading: §2, 13
Due: Homework 3, due November 9, 2023


  1. JSON [json-ex.py]
    1. What it is
    2. json.loads
    3. json.dumps

  2. What is XML?
    1. Tree structure
    2. Elements, tags, attributes, attribute values
    3. Example: sample1.xml

  3. Python and XML [basic-xml.py]
    1. xml.etree.ElementTree
    2. Parsing the tree from file input (ET.parse()), from a string (ET.fromstring())
    3. Referring to elements
    4. Accessing tag names, attributes
    5. Finding nodes in the tree
    6. Dumping, writing the tree
    7. Removing an element and its descendants
    8. Changing an element’s attribute
    9. Setting attributes

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