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copied!<p>With this text (note that I added <code><icon data="([^"]*)"/><wind_condition data="([^"]*)"/></code> at the end because this part isn't in your example) in a file called 'joeljames.txt' :</p> <pre><code><?xml version="1.0"?><xml_api_reply version="1"><weather module_id="0" tab_id="0" mobile_row="0" mobile_zipped="1" row="0" section="0" ><forecast_information><city data="Baton Rouge, LA"/><postal_code data="baton rouge,la"/><latitude_e6 data=""/><longitude_e6 data=""/><forecast_date data="2011-02-22"/><current_date_time data="2011-02-22 20:06:59 +0000"/><unit_system data="US"/></forecast_information><current_conditions><condition data="Cloudy"/><temp_f data="72"/><temp_c data="22"/><humidity data="Humidity: 73%"/><icon data="/ig/images/weather/cloudy.gif"/><wind_condition data="Wind: N at 5 mph"/> </code></pre> <p>the following short code</p> <pre><code>import re with open('joeljames.txt','rb') as f: RE = ('humidity data="([^"]*)"/>' '<icon data="([^"]*)"/>' '<wind_condition data="([^"]*)"/>') print re.search(RE,f.read()).groups() </code></pre> <p>or even</p> <pre><code>import re print re.search(('humidity data="([^"]*)"/>' '<icon data="([^"]*)"/>' '<wind_condition data="([^"]*)"/>'), open('joeljames.txt','rb').read()).groups() </code></pre> <p>have result:</p> <pre><code>('Humidity: 73%', '/ig/images/weather/cloudy.gif', 'Wind: N at 5 mph') </code></pre> <p>Nothing more. </p> <p>I know than the priests of XML parsers will say that yoooou MUST use an XML parser because there are some that are very efficient and a coder must be lazy and etc... They are right in case what must be obtained requires complex algorithm.</p> <p>But in case of a simple aim as here, I think justified not to resort to an XML parser, moreover if one doesn't know to use one. Do you ? </p> <p>For my solution, well, you must know regexes, yes... It is necessary to have a minimum of tool when one wants to do something. You must indeed know a language too.....</p> <p>You can use the parser solution, no problem. But now you know that it's possible with regexes too and you can choose.</p> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>To answer to critics that the order of elements may not be always the same:</p> <pre><code>import re print dict(re.findall('(humidity data|icon data|wind_condition data)' '="([^"]*)"/>',open('joeljames.txt','rb').read())) </code></pre> <p>prints</p> <pre><code>{'humidity data': 'Humidity: 73%', 'icon data': '/ig/images/weather/cloudy.gif', 'wind_condition data': 'Wind: N at 5 mph'} </code></pre>

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