Loading XML from a file on Google App Engine

Question

What I'm trying to do is simple. Load am XML file using ElementTree so I can traverse it.

Here's the code:

_uri = '/news.xml'
self.root = ElementTree.parse(_uri).getroot()

And, the error:

file not accessible: '/news.xml'

From what I can tell, the parser can't find the document. Is there something I need to configure so python can see my site's files?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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I.e. files that are marked as static are not accessible, but you can also serve it as an application resource file.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Apr 11 '12 at 22:28

jeffrey_t_b

OK, I removed the static routing and it's still throwing the same error. – Evan Plaice Apr 11 '12 at 22:54
This worked. path = os.path.join(os.path.split(__file__)[0], [filename]). It was a combination of the wrong path and the static route. – Evan Plaice Apr 11 '12 at 23:00
Could you please post the complete way of loading a file "myfile.txt" into a variable? – Jonny Sep 02 '13 at 09:31

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