#!/usr/bin/python

from os.path import expanduser
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup

f = file(expanduser('~/.tvtime/stationlist.xml'), 'r+')
soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(f, selfClosingTags=['station'])

for i, station in enumerate(soup.findAll(’station’)):
    station['position'] = i+1

f.seek(0)
f.write(soup.prettify())
f.truncate()
f.close()

That really ought to work! It will overwrite your current ~/.tvtime/stationlist.xml file, so you might want to make a backup of it first, just in case :-)

station name=”TRT 1″ active=”1″ position=”1″ band=”VHF E2-E12″ channel=”E8″ finetune=”0″ norm=”PAL” audio=”auto”
station name=”TRT 2″ active=”1″ position=”2″ band=”VHF E2-E12″ channel=”E9″ finetune=”0″ norm=”PAL” audio=”auto”
station name=”KANAL D” active=”1″ position=”40″ band=”VHF S1-S41″ channel=”S28″ finetune=”0″ norm=”PAL” audio=”auto”
station name=”SHOW TV” active=”1″ position=”6″ band=”VHF E2-E12″ channel=”E6″ finetune=”0″ norm=”PAL” audio=”auto”

Here are my first 4 station lines in the output file:

As you see position attributes aren’t correct.

Am I doing something wrong?

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