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Python: consume xml from RestFul webservices
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# Try to use the C implementation first, falling back to python | |
try: | |
from xml.etree import cElementTree as ElementTree | |
except ImportError, e: | |
from xml.etree import ElementTree | |
########## | |
def find(*args, **kwargs): | |
"""Find a book in the collection specified""" | |
search_args = [('access_key', api_key),] | |
if not is_valid_collection(kwargs['collection']): | |
return None | |
kwargs.pop('collection') | |
for key in kwargs: | |
# Only the first keword is honored | |
if kwargs[key]: | |
search_args.append(('index1', key)) | |
search_args.append(('value1', kwargs[key])) | |
break | |
url = urllib.basejoin(api_url, '%s.xml' % 'books') | |
data = urllib.urlencode(search_args) | |
req = urllib2.urlopen(url, data) | |
rdata = [] | |
chunk = 'xx' | |
while chunk: | |
chunk = req.read() | |
if chunk: | |
rdata.append(chunk) | |
tree = ElementTree.fromstring(''.join(rdata)) | |
results = [] | |
for i, elem in enumerate(tree.getiterator('BookData')): | |
results.append( | |
{'isbn': elem.get('isbn'), | |
'isbn13': elem.get('isbn13'), | |
'title': elem.find('Title').text, | |
'author': elem.find('AuthorsText').text, | |
'publisher': elem.find('PublisherText').text,} | |
) | |
return results |
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