Simple Hadoop Configuration Parser. For when you don't have enough time to scroll.

hadoop_conf_parser.py

#!/usr/bin/python
 
 
from xml.dom import minidom
 
def getNodeText(node):
 
    nodelist = node.childNodes
    result = []
    for node in nodelist:
        if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
            result.append(node.data)
    return ''.join(result)
 
 
def parse_hadoop_conf(filename):
 
	doc_vals = {}
	xmldoc = minidom.parse(filename)
	itemlist = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('property') 
	for s in itemlist :
		n_name =  getNodeText(s.getElementsByTagName('name')[0])
		n_value = getNodeText(s.getElementsByTagName('value')[0])
		doc_vals[n_name] = n_value
	
	print filename
	for item in doc_vals.keys():
		print "\t\t", item, "\t=>\t", doc_vals[item]
 
 
parse_hadoop_conf("mapred-site.xml")