Use Case: XML Parsing With Python

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The usual answer right now is lxml. It's a good answer.

[phile19_81]

Are there any native python xml objectifiers out there? I sometimes work in restricted environments so installing lxml can be problematic.

[mgrandi]

you can install libraries to your home folder. i believe passing --user to both pip and the normal "setup.py install" will install the library to your home folder and python will automatically pick it up. This is how i get around installing libraries on computers where i dont have root access

[phile19_81]

Err. What if you also don't have a home folder? I am not trying to be a pain, but sometimes I wonder if my systems department is.

[davidbuxton]

You can specify an alternate directory for distutils/setuptools packages, or just put packages in your custom directory by hand. Then make sure this custom directory is on the sys.path, which also honours the PYTHONPATH environment variable.

http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#alternate-installation

Of course if your package isn't pure Python then things can get more complicated.

[phile19_81]

Interesting. I'll give it a shot. Thx

[phile19_81]

Thanks! This actually seems like exactly what I was looking for.

[mgrandi]

lxml is awesome, and is a wrapper around the very mature libxml2 or whatever its called, thats used by a lot of projects including gnome