Python BeautifulSoup XML Parsing

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BeautifulSoup makes getting at attributes and values in xml really simple. I tweaked your example function to use these features. 

import sys
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as Soup

def parseLog(file):
    file = sys.argv[1]
    handler = open(file).read()
    soup = Soup(handler)
    for message in soup.findAll('message'):
        msg_attrs = dict(message.attrs)
        f_user = message.find('from').user
        f_user_dict = dict(f_user.attrs)
        print "%s: %s [%s @ %s]" % (f_user_dict[u'friendlyname'],
                                    message.find('text').decodeContents(),
                                    msg_attrs[u'date'],
                                    msg_attrs[u'time'])


if __name__ == "__main__":
    parseLog(sys.argv[1])

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