[baernolth1]

I've been writing some code to generate a XML document using the xml.dom.minidom module in Python. When I test my code in the Python shell by adding each entry in a dictionary manually it works and will perform the "print outfile.toxml()" function just fine. However, when I construct the document using a for loop it returns an error. Here is an example of the code:

 outfile = xml.dom.minidom.Document() #create the xml file
	list = outfile.createElement("List")#create the list that is the root
	outfile.appendChild(list)			   #of the file
	
	randomDict = {'asdf':6,'qewrty':42}
	for entry in randomDict.items():
		indentifier = outfile.createElement(entry[0])
		list.appendChild(identifier)
		answer = outfile.createElement(entry[1])
		identifier.appendChild(answer)

	print outfile.toxml()

Any ideas or suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

[PsychoCoder]

For starters what's the error it's returning?

[baernolth1]

PsychoCoder, on 25 Jun, 2009 - 08:22 AM, said:

For starters what's the error it's returning?

Sorry about that PsychoCoder. Here is the error message I receive:

File "<pyshell#13>", line 1, in <module>
print outfile.toxml()
File "C:\Python26\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 45, in toxml
return self.toprettyxml("", "", encoding)
File "C:\Python26\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 57, in toprettyxml
self.writexml(writer, "", indent, newl, encoding)
File "C:\Python26\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 1749, in writexml
node.writexml(writer, indent, addindent, newl)
File "C:\Python26\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 817, in writexml
node.writexml(writer,indent+addindent,addindent,newl)
File "C:\Python26\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 817, in writexml
node.writexml(writer,indent+addindent,addindent,newl)
File "C:\Python26\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 804, in writexml
writer.write(indent+"<" + self.tagName)
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

Also the instance in the code where it defines "identifier" was misspelled.
Again, any help/suggestions would be great.
Thanks!