El siguiente programa filtra los datos importantes en un documento xml y los imprime de forma organizada:

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arch = """<listitem> <variable name="UUID">2bd9c142-9e91-4182-b85c-5bb616823bd9</variable> <variable name="Name">kurokysan</variable> <variable name="AccStatus">1</variable> <variable name="WWWFilter">JARSP</variable> <variable name="UseTemplate">1</variable> <variable name="Rights">0</variable> <variable name="AdmFilter">JARSP</variable> <variable name="QuotaDayEnabled">0</variable> <variable name="QuotaDayType"></variable> <variable name="QuotaDay">5242880</variable> <variable name="QuotaWeekEnabled">0</variable> <variable name="QuotaWeekType"></variable> <variable name="QuotaWeek">0</variable> <variable name="QuotaMonthEnabled">0</variable> <variable name="QuotaMonthType"></variable> <variable name="QuotaMonth">0</variable> <variable name="QuotaAction"></variable> <variable name="QuotaSendAlert">0</variable> <variable name="Lang">detect</variable> <variable name="DontUseLangTemp">0</variable> <variable name="DetectedLang"></variable> </listitem>""" indice = 0 indice2 = 0 while indice < len(arch): init = arch.find('"',indice) final = arch.find('"',init + 1) init2 = arch.find('">',indice2) final2 = arch.find('<',init2+1) if init == -1: break indice = final + 1 indice2 = final + 1 if len(arch[init2+2:final2]) == 0: print arch[init+1:final] + ' = ' + str(None) else: print arch[init+1:final] + ' = ' + str(arch[init2+2:final2])

Output:

UUID = 2bd9c142-9e91-4182-b85c-5bb616823bd9 Name = kurokysan AccStatus = 1 WWWFilter = JARSP UseTemplate = 1 Rights = 0 AdmFilter = JARSP QuotaDayEnabled = 0 QuotaDayType = None QuotaDay = 5242880 QuotaWeekEnabled = 0 QuotaWeekType = None QuotaWeek = 0 QuotaMonthEnabled = 0 QuotaMonthType = None QuotaMonth = 0 QuotaAction = None QuotaSendAlert = 0 Lang = detect DontUseLangTemp = 0 DetectedLang = None