strip xml from android strings.xml for a simple human readable output

human_android_strings.py

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

def parse_text(line):
  clean_line = line
  clean_line = clean_line.replace("…", "...")
  clean_line = clean_line.replace("\u2020", "")
  clean_line = clean_line.replace("–", "-") 
  clean_line = clean_line.replace("©", "(copy)")
  element = ET.fromstring(clean_line)
  return element.text

def parse_comment(line):
  return line.strip()[4:-3].strip()

def is_comment(line):
  return "<!--" in line

def is_string_element(line):
  return "<string name=" in line

if __name__ == "__main__":
  with open("app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml") as f:
    lines = [line for line in f.readlines() if line]
    with open("human_strings_output.txt", "w+") as output:
      for line in lines:
        if is_comment(line):
          if not is_string_element(line):
            output.write("\n"+parse_comment(line) + ":\n")#preserve comments used to group strings
        elif is_string_element(line):
          try:
            output.write("\t"+parse_text(line) + "\n")#nest under previous group/category comment
          except Exception, e:
            print(e)
            print(line)