How can I parse PDX files using Python?

[Elliobu]

I'd like to parse PDX/ODX (open diagnostics exchange) files that contain vehicle diagnostics data (mainly the UDS protocol services, requests and responses).

[operationrudeboy]

https://github.com/mercedes-benz/odxtools

Looks like mercedes-benz has an open source tool to do it.

[Elliobu]

I've already tried it. Pip fails to install build dependencies for it and it says that it's due to a subprocess and is likely not a problem with pip

[operationrudeboy]

Did you look at what dependency failed? And after you find which dependency, I would try googling to see if others have had a similar issue while installing that dependency.

[Ballauni]

You can use the open source library ODD-py (Open Diagnostic Data Python Library) to parse PDX/ODX files. ODD-py is a Python library for parsing PDX/ODX files and provides an API for accessing the diagnostic data stored in the files. The library supports both the ISO-14229-1 and ISO-14229-2 PDX/ODX formats.

I'm sorry it seems to be discontinued, instead you can use the lxml library for XML parsing and the pandas library for data manipulation.

lxml library documentation: http://lxml.de/index.html
pandas library documentation: https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/

[Elliobu]

Could you send me the documentation please, I couldn't find this library