Source code for olm.USGS.siteListExtraction

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# Set of functions to extract lists of USGS site numbers
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from lxml import etree



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def extractSitesFromXML(xmlFile):
    try:
        siteTree = etree.ElementTree(file=xmlFile)
        siteList = []
        for site in siteTree.getiterator(tag="site"):
            siteNum = site.findtext("site_no")
            siteList.append(siteNum)
        return siteList
    except IOError:
        print(("Error opening file: " + xmlFile))
        return -1
    except etree.XMLSyntaxError:
        print(("File contains invalid XML Syntax: " + xmlFile))
        return -1




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def extractSitesFromText(textFile):
    siteList = []
    with open(textFile, "r") as siteFile:
        for line in siteFile:
            line = line.strip()
            if not ("#" in line) and (line != ""):
                siteList.append(line)
    return siteList