"Andrew Dalke" <adalke@[...].com>  writes:

>  Tim Rowe:
>  > b. Add a parameter to the handler's __init__ method, that takes some
>  > sort of mutable object, and put the answer into that object.
>  
>  Either that or have startDocument create the mutable object, as
>  
>  class MyHandler(xml.sax.handlers.ContentHandler):
>    def startDocument(self):
>      self.count = 0
>    def startElement(self, name, attrs):
>      if name == "spam":
>          self.count += 1
>  
>  parser = xml.sax.make_parser()
>  h = MyHandler()
>  parser.setContentHandler(h)
>  h.parse(input)
>  print h.count

Works, but integers aren't mutable.


John
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