def parse(handle, validate=True): """Parses an XML file from the NCBI Entrez Utilities into python objects. This function parses an XML file created by NCBI's Entrez Utilities, returning a multilevel data structure of Python lists and dictionaries. This function is suitable for XML files that (in Python) can be represented as a list of individual records. Whereas 'read' reads the complete file and returns a single Python list, 'parse' is a generator function that returns the records one by one. This function is therefore particularly useful for parsing large files. Most XML files returned by NCBI's Entrez Utilities can be parsed by this function, provided its DTD is available. Biopython includes the DTDs for most commonly used Entrez Utilities. If validate is True (default), the parser will validate the XML file against the DTD, and raise an error if the XML file contains tags that are not represented in the DTD. If validate is False, the parser will simply skip such tags. Whereas the data structure seems to consist of generic Python lists, dictionaries, strings, and so on, each of these is actually a class derived from the base type. This allows us to store the attributes (if any) of each element in a dictionary my_element.attributes, and the tag name in my_element.tag. """ from Parser import DataHandler handler = DataHandler(validate) records = handler.parse(handle) return records
def parse(handle): from Parser import DataHandler DTDs = os.path.join(str(__path__[0]), "DTDs") handler = DataHandler(DTDs) records = handler.parse(handle) return records
def read(handle): """Parses an XML file from the NCBI Entrez Utilities into python objects. This function parses an XML file created by NCBI's Entrez Utilities, returning a multilevel data structure of Python lists and dictionaries. Most XML files returned by NCBI's Entrez Utilities can be parsed by this function, provided its DTD is available. Biopython includes the DTDs for most commonly used Entrez Utilities. Whereas the data structure seems to consist of generic Python lists, dictionaries, strings, and so on, each of these is actually a class derived from the base type. This allows us to store the attributes (if any) of each element in a dictionary my_element.attributes, and the tag name in my_element.tag. """ from Parser import DataHandler DTDs = os.path.join(__path__[0], "DTDs") handler = DataHandler(DTDs) record = handler.run(handle) return record
def parse(handle): from Parser import DataHandler DTDs = os.path.join(__path__[0], "DTDs") handler = DataHandler(DTDs) records = handler.parse(handle) return records