Sort Pidgin Groups

sort_pidgin_groups.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse('blist.xml')
container = tree.find('blist')

def getkey(elem):
	return elem.attrib['name']

container[:] = sorted(container, key=getkey)
tree.write('blist.xml')

Thanks! Just what I was looking for 👍

Thank you, although it didnt work right way, it pointed me to the right direction.

#!/usr/bin/python3

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse('blist.xml')
container = tree.find('blist')

def getkey(elem):
if 'name' in elem.attrib:
return elem.attrib['name']
else:
return ''

container[:] = sorted(container, key=getkey)
xml_string = ET.tostring(tree.getroot(), encoding='unicode')
print(xml_string)
tree.write('blist-ordered.xml')

As I'm not confident with python, I wrote to blist-ordered.xml first, then moved that to the original blist.xml ahaha