wxPython Recipes: A Problem - Solution Approach

© Mike Driscoll 2018

Mike DriscollwxPython Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3237-8_14

14. XML and XRC

Mike Driscoll¹ 

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Ankeny, New York, USA

 

Recipe 14-1. Extracting XML from the RichTextCtrl

Problem

The RichTextCtrl gives you the ability to use styled text. It also provides a few different handlers to save the data it contains into various formats. One of those happens to be XML. In this recipe, we will learn how to extract XML from the RichTextCtrl .

Solution

The RichTextCtrl is a part of wx.richtext which you will need to import in addition to the wx module. It’s easiest to understand if we just go ahead and code an example.

# wxPython Classic version

import wx

import wx.richtext

from StringIO import StringIO

class MyFrame(wx.Frame):

    def ...