我如何遍历列表，从列表中提取信息，并将其放入文件中的单独行中

Question

My problem is that I need the data on the second, third, fourth, etc person to become the new listA and be written on the line below the first person, second person, etc etc. So the info is all formatted and placed in the file on a new line.

Structure of the XML file:

<people>
<person>
<fname> Travis </fname>
<lname> Anderson </lname>
<age> 24 </age>
<school> Nebraska </school>
</person>
<person>
<fname> James </fname>
<lname> Kritten </lname>
<age> 23 </age>
<school> Texas State </school>
</person>
<person>
<fname> Kaine </fname>
<lname> Allen </lname>
<age> 27 </age>
<school> Michigan State </school>
</person>
</people>

This is my code thus far:

def peopleData(fileName):
    readFile = open(fileName, "r").read()#read file
    newFile = input("")#create file
    writeFile = open(newFile, "w")#write file
    listA = []#list
    with open(fileName, "r") as file:
        for tags in file:
            strippedtags = str(tags.split(">")[1].split("<")[0]) #strip XML tags manually.
            listA.append(strippedtags.strip()) #strip ' \n'
            listA = list(filter(None, listA)) #get rid of emptyspaces in the list
    writeFile.write("{} {}, ".format(listA[1], listA[2])) #fname, lname
    writeFile.write("He is {} years old. ".format(listA[3])) #age
    writeFile.write("He went to {}.".format(listA[4])+"\n") #school
    writeFile.close

so the list would look like

>>>['Travis', 'Anderson', '24', 'Nebraska','James' ,'Kritten', '23', 'Texas State','Kaine', 'Allen', '27', 'Michigan State']

When I execute the function I get the information on the first person and it's exactly how I want it.

"Travis Anderson. He is 24 years old. He went to Nebraska."

But for the rest of the people I don't know how to make them be written in the same way the first person is. Like this.

"Travis Anderson. He is 24 years old. He went to Nebraska."
"James Kritten. He is 23 years old. He went to Texas State."
"Kaine Allen. He is 27 years old. He went to Michigan State."

I need some sort of loop, but I don't know where to start with it.

The information repeats(with different variables every 5th index of the list if that helps.)

Answer 1

xml = '''
<people>
<person>
<fname> Travis </fname>
<lname> Anderson </lname>
<age> 24 </age>
<school> Nebraska </school>
</person>
<person>
<fname> James </fname>
<lname> Kritten </lname>
<age> 23 </age>
<school> Texas State </school>
</person>
<person>
<fname> Kaine </fname>
<lname> Allen </lname>
<age> 27 </age>
<school> Michigan State </school>
</person>
</people>'''


from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(xml, 'lxml')
for p in soup.find_all('person'):
    fullname = p.fname.text.strip() + p.lname.text.rstrip()
    age = p.age.text.strip()
    school = p.school.text.strip()
    print("{}. He is {} years old. He went to {}.".format(fullname, age, school))

out:

Travis Anderson. He is 24 years old. He went to Nebraska.
James Kritten. He is 23 years old. He went to Texas State.
Kaine Allen. He is 27 years old. He went to Michigan State.

and to show how simple the library is, i extract all text in a list in two lines code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(xml, 'lxml')
[i for i in soup.stripped_strings]

out:

['Travis', 'Anderson', '24', 'Nebraska', 'James', 'Kritten', '23', 'Texas State', 'Kaine', 'Allen', '27', 'Michigan State']