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Using_Python_to_Access_Web_Data/extractingDatafromXML.py

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+ # prompt for a URL, read the XML data from that URL using urllib and then parse
+ # and extract the comment counts from the XML data, compute the sum of the numbers
+ # in the file.
+import urllib.request,urllib.parse,urllib.error
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+import ssl
+# from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+ctx=ssl.create_default_context()
+ctx.check_hostname=False
+ctx.verify_mode=ssl.CERT_NONE
+
+url=input('URL: ')
+if len(url)<1:
+    url='http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_42.xml'
+print("Retrieving: ",url)
+
+xmlString=urllib.request.urlopen(url,context=ctx).read()
+# parsed_xml=BeautifulSoup(fhand,'html.parser')
+xmlTree=ET.fromstring(xmlString)
+tagList=xmlTree.findall('comments/comment')
+# print(tagList)
+count=list()
+for tag in tagList:
+    # print('Name: ',tag.find('name').text)
+    # print('Count:',tag.find('count').text)
+    count.append(int(tag.find('count').text))
+print('Count:',len(count))
+print('Sum: ',sum(count))