Read XML and keep all letters through Python

Question

I have a XML that looks like this:

<data>
    <items>
        <item name="item1"></item>
        <item name="item2"></item>
        <item name="item3"></item>
        <item name="item4"></item>
    </items>
</data>

Can anyone tell me how to read the file and print every single letter, not only the contents but ALL THE CHARACTERS (including the letters in the brackets)?

Could you clarify what you mean by "print" in your question? The duplicate question will read a file with the content above, including that within the angle brackets. Perhaps you're trying to display it within a web page, in which case it would be necessary to escape characters that would be interpreted as HTML/XML - but your question doesn't make that clear. It would help immensely to include the code you're using that doesn't suit, and explain what the problem is. — Mogsdad, Jun 11 '15 at 18:11
By print, I mean to use "print". It turned out I set the content-type to be text/html and tried to print the xml. That was why all those in the brackets were not shown. Now I set it to be text/text and it works just fine. — ice_e, Jun 11 '15 at 21:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 11 '15 at 00:51

Right back at ya.

import os
filepath='xml_file.xml'
total_bytes=os.stat(filepath).st_size
f = open(filepath,'rb')
for char_index in xrange(total_bytes):
    one_char=f.read(1)
    print "here is the char at offset: %s : %s" % (char_index,one_char)
f.close()

Read XML and keep all letters through Python

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