Dive Into Python

9.7. Segue

OK, that's it for the hard-core XML stuff. The next chapter will continue to use these same example programs, but focus on other aspects that make the program more flexible: using streams for input processing, using getattr for method dispatching, and using command-line flags to allow users to reconfigure the program without changing the code.

Before moving on to the next chapter, you should be comfortable doing all of these things:

Parsing XML documents using minidom, searching through the parsed document, and accessing arbitrary element attributes and element children
Organizing complex libraries into packages
Converting unicode strings to different character encodings