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+import sqlite3
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+import re
+import datetime
+
+def createdb():
+    print(1)
+    conn = sqlite3.connect('../test_database.db') 
+    c = conn.cursor()
+
+    c.execute('''
+          CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS comics
+          (
+			[book_id] TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+			[book_path] TEXT, 
+			[series] TEXT,
+			[number] TEXT,
+			[count] INTEGER,
+			[volume] TEXT,
+			[seriesgroup] TEXT,
+			[notes] TEXT,
+			[year] INTEGER,
+			[month] INTEGER,
+			[day] INTEGER
+		  )
+          ''')
+    conn.commit()
+
+def dropdb():
+	conn = sqlite3.connect('../test_database.db')
+	c = conn.cursor()
+	c.execute('DROP TABLE COMICS')
+	conn.commit()
+
+def loaddata():
+    count = 0
+    book_id,book_path,series,number="","","",""
+    count=0
+    volume,seriesgroup,notes="","",""
+    year,month,date=0,0,0
+    
+    tree = ET.parse('../ComicDb_small.xml')
+    root = tree.getroot()
+
+    for child in root:
+        print(child.tag,child.attrib)
+        if child.tag == 'Books':
+            for grandchild in child:
+                print(grandchild.tag,grandchild.attrib)
+                for ggchild in grandchild:
+                    print(ggchild.tag,ggchild.attrib)
+        #for books in child.findall('Book'):
+            #print(books,type(books))
+            #print(books.tag, books.attrib)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+    #with open('ComicDb_small.xml', 'r') as f:
+    #    contents = f.read()
+    #    Bs_data = BeautifulSoup(contents, 'xml')
+    #    for i in Bs_data.find_all('Book'):
+    #        #print(i)
+    #        try:
+    #            book_id = i.find('Book',{"Id"}).text
+    #            print(book_id)
+    #        except:
+    #            pass
+    #        try:
+    #            series=i.select('Series')[0].text
+    #        except:
+    #            pass
+loaddata()