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    <p>I have an XML file with several thousand records in it in the form of:</p> <pre><code>&lt;custs&gt; &lt;record cust_ID="B123456@Y1996" l_name="Jungle" f_name="George" m_name="OfThe" city="Fairbanks" zip="00010" current="1" /&gt; &lt;record cust_ID="Q975697@Z2000" l_name="Freely" f_name="I" m_name="P" city="Yellow River" zip="03010" current="1" /&gt; &lt;record cust_ID="M7803@J2323" l_name="Jungle" f_name="Jim" m_name="" city="Fallen Arches" zip="07008" current="0" /&gt; &lt;/custs&gt; # (I know it's not normalized. This is just sample data) </code></pre> <p>How can I convert this into a CSV or tab-delimited file? I know I can hard-code it in Python using re.compile() statements, but there has to be something easier, and more portable among diff XML file layouts.</p> <p>I've found a couple threads here about attribs, (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11713977/beautifulsoup-unable-to-extract-data-using-attrs-class">Beautifulsoup unable to extract data using attrs=class</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2612548/extracting-an-attribute-value-with-beautifulsoup">Extracting an attribute value with beautifulsoup</a>) and they have gotten me almost there with:</p> <pre><code># Python 3.30 # from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import fileinput Input = open("C:/Python/XML Tut/MinGrp.xml", encoding = "utf-8", errors = "backslashreplace") OutFile = open('C:/Python/XML Tut/MinGrp_Out.ttxt', 'w', encoding = "utf-8", errors = "backslashreplace") soup = BeautifulSoup(Input, features="xml") results = soup.findAll('custs', attrs={}) # output = results [0]#[0] for each_tag in results: cust_attrb_value = results[0] # print (cust_attrb_value) OutFile.write(cust_attrb_value) OutFile.close() </code></pre> <p>What's the next (last?) step?</p>
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    2. COI think the problem is in separating the attribs so that I can write them to the output file. I've edited my codeblock to add the output file. I should have done that at the start. Thank you for mentioning it!
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