atom2tsv.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding:utf-8

from __future__ import unicode_literals
from more_itertools import *
from lxml import etree
import codecs

def convert_atom2list(filename):
    xml = etree.fromstring(codecs.open(filename, 'rb').read())
    items_title = [[x] for x in xml.xpath('//title/text()')]
    items_link = [[x] for x in xml.xpath('//link/@href')]
    items_id = [[x] for x in xml.xpath('//id/text()')]
    items_update = [[x] for x in xml.xpath('//updated/text()')]
    items_summary = [[x] for x in xml.xpath('//summary/text()')]
    return zip(list_title, list_link, list_id, list_update, list_summary)

def export_list2tsv(xs_tuple):
    xs = map(lambda x: list(flatten(x)), xs_tuple)
    list_lines = map('\t'.join, xs)
    string_lines = '\n'.join(list_lines)
    f = codecs.open('atom2tsv.txt', 'w', 'utf-8')
    f.write(string_lines)
    f.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    xs_tuple = convert_atom2list('atom.xml')
    export_list2tsv(xs_tuple)