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qitoolchain.feeds – Parsing toolchain feeds

All the XML parsing is done with the excellent xml.etree.ElementTree standard Python library.

qitoolchain.feed.ToolchainFeedParser

class qitoolchain.feed.ToolchainFeedParser

A class to handle feed parsing

packages

A list of packages, stored as ElementTree objects. The feed where the package came from is stored in a “feed” XML attribute of this package for later use.

_versions

A dictionary name->version used to only keep the latest version of packages

append_package(package_tree)

Add a package to self.packages. If an older version of the package exists, replace it by the new version

parse(feed)

Recursively parse the feeds, filling packages while doing so.

See also

• You can read about the XML format of feeds in the Toolchain feed syntax section.
• You can read more about what happens next when using qitoolchain create, qibuild configure in the Parsing toolchain feeds overview

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