Hi every SoloLearners~~ Somebody plz Help me!!Ha!

Question

Hi there.
this is the first time to use SoloLearn with python
I wanted to parse a file named "staff.xml" in code playground.

my code is
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from xml.dom import minidom

doc = minidom.parse("staff.xml")

# doc.getElementsByTagName returns NodeList
name = doc.getElementsByTagName("name")[0]
print(name.firstChild.data)
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but when I run this code, the output is FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'staff.xml'

so, my question is that if I could bring that file 'staff.xml' in code playground?

Answer 1

When you do something like this, it tries to fetch the file from local storage which, in this case, is SoloLearn server because script is executed there...

Answer 2

you can't do external files on sololearn. try downloading python for your pc, or maybe qpython for android, if you want to edit files and in general do a lot more.

Answer 3

First of all you need to upload that XML file somewhere in internet and than paste that link of your XML file in the code playground