Thanks for your help! Now it works. I went through the “dos2unix” option then. I’ll leave the .dat file on that uri to be accessed by others.

Ciao,
Luca

Here’s the Arizona data required to get Craig Schmidt’s Python script (for Nokia Series 60 devices) to deliver Traffic Cams to mobile devices.

Luca: You’re using a platform which uses two characters for line endings, most likely windows, \r\n. The loader expects only one character line endings, so when it loads your tabs line, the key for the final value is given an extra character (’s\r’) and your s keys can’t be set because of it. You want to run the file through a program called “dos2unix” in order to fix it up. Alternatively, you can offer a patch to the loader which is smarter, which I’ll also take. Look around the “readline” parts.

DanC: Although it’s true that you can do something simple like that, it doesn’t do what most people want from XML: If I were to go with a “simple” XML parsing solution like that, I’d simply run into people putting more than it could handle into it (comments, for example) and wondering why it didn’t work. I’d rather lay out a very simple, non-extensible format, since then people don’t expect it to work without putting some work in it One of the problems that many people seem to have with XML is that they expect that if they write it an XML file, everyone will be able to read it. (Silly, I know, but it happens.) So, I suppose I’d just prefer my nice simple format to keep things happy with people who don’t realize why their file might not work..

def tags(markup):
    """quick-n-dirty XML parser
    """
    for tag in markup.split(">"):
        yield tag

hmm… no comment preview… I hope this turns out OK…

I’m working on my .dat file but I receive an “ill line” while the application parse s it! Any suggestion is very appreciated!

http://www.3globe.com/italy_autostrade.dat

Bye,
Luca

My question is: would you become a member of our group and do a short introduction of what this is all about ?
i am shore our members would appriciate that.
The group can be found here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traffic-cams
It would be of interest to you anyway since we have the most extensive list of all traffic-cams in the world
nicely sorted by country or technical details.
You are welcome ! hope to hear from you soon Thanks !

Ron (contranl) moderator of Yahoo traffic-cams

I think this sort of thing really shows how useful a decent high level language for mobile development is going to be, it’s just so much easier to work with than Java ME ever was…