From: Tony Mack <tmack@paris.CS.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:29:56 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: added todict() method
X-Git-Tag: sfa-1.1-1~68
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f36f7b0e0b6c4bda3a71f36cf08e25566e1cbe2f;p=sfa.git

added todict() method
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diff --git a/sfa/util/xml.py b/sfa/util/xml.py
index 5a2656c2..2618ca1e 100755
--- a/sfa/util/xml.py
+++ b/sfa/util/xml.py
@@ -181,6 +181,18 @@ class XML:
 
     def toxml(self):
         return etree.tostring(self.root, pretty_print=True)  
+    
+    def todict(self, elem=None):
+        if elem is None:
+            elem = self.root
+        d = {}
+        d.update(elem.attrib)
+        d['text'] = elem.text
+        for child in elem.iterchildren():
+            if child.tag not in d:
+                d[child.tag] = []
+            d[child.tag].append(self.todict(child))
+        return d            
         
     def save(self, filename):
         f = open(filename, 'w')