Help needed with XML parsing using Python

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Python2.7

My Python code reads in a test.c file. In this file, there are many arrays with data. I am reading a specific array with the name string check_array[]. The array has the format shown below:

    string check_array[] = {
     { 1 , "NULL","NULL", "NULL", "Movies,Sports,Games" },
     {  2 , "Day1", "Day1Task", "List", "WakeUp,Eat,Play,Sleep" },
     {  3 , "Day3", "Day3Task", "List", "WakeUp,Eat,Play,Study" },

       .... and so on BUT the array ends using like this....
      { 0 , NULL,  NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL}  
    };
My Python code reads this array from the .c file as there are many other arrays as well. Then it builds an XML structure as shown below:

    xml= """
      <Task name="TaskListForYear/DayList/{parta}"> 
        <Info>{partb}</Info>       
        <Task type="To be filled soon">Not_filled_as_of_now</Value>
      </Task>"""
In order to build the XML, I only focus on the second and third column strings.

I do something like this in my code to filter those two columns:

    tmp1 = findstring.group(2).strip()
    tmp2 = findstring.group(3).strip()
Example of XML structure written to file:

     <Task name="TaskListForYear/DayList/Day1Task"> 
            <Info>List</Info>       
            <Task type="To be filled soon">Not_filled_as_of_now</Value>
     </Task> 
In other words, my Python code builds the XML structure for each line parsed in the array and writes this XML structure to a file using the following syntax:

     FileCheck.write((xml.format(parta=tmp1, partb=tmp2))).
But now I want to make an improvement in my code.

For example, if you look at the row:

    { 2 , "Day1", "Day1Task", "List", "WakeUp,Eat,Play,Sleep" },
Currently, I only build an XML structure like this for it:

 <Task name="TaskListForYear/DayList/Day1Task"> 
        <Info>List</Info>       
        <Task type="To be filled soon">Not_filled_as_of_now</Value>
      </Task> 
I want to be able to do something like this now:

               <Task name="TaskListForYear/DayList/WakeUp_Day1Task"> 
                <Info>List</Info>       
                <Task type="To be filled soon">Not_filled_as_of_now</Value>
               </Task> 

              <Task name="TaskListForYear/DayList/Eat_Day1Task"> 
                <Info>List</Info>       
                <Task type="To be filled soon">Not_filled_as_of_now</Value>
              </Task>
              <Task name="TaskListForYear/DayList/Play_Day1Task"> 
                <Info>List</Info>       
                <Task type="To be filled soon">Not_filled_as_of_now</Value>
              </Task>
              <Task name="TaskListForYear/DayList/Study_Day1Task"> 
                <Info>List</Info>       
                <Task type="To be filled soon">Not_filled_as_of_now</Value>
              </Task>
Note that the WakeUp, eat, play, and sleep come in front of the Day1Task.

I am not sure how to do this. Can someone provide me with example code?

My code is as follows:

    start = False
    with open(mygamesinfo.c) as g:
     for ln in g:
        if re.search("NULL", line):
           start=False
        if start:
           matchingstring= re.search(r"{(.*?),(.*?),(.*?),(.*?),.*?)}", line)

           if matchingstring:
              tag = matchingstring.group(2).strip()
              name = matchingstring.group(3).strip()

              if tmp1== "NULL":
                 tmp1= None                  

        else:
            tmp1= tmp1 [1:-1]

        if tmp2== "NULL":
            tmp2= None

        else:
            tmp2= tmp2[1:-1]                                                 

            FileCheck.write((xmlTemplate.format(parta=tmp2,partb=tmp2))) 
     elif (line.startswith('string check_array[] = {')):
          start =true

I

What I have tried:

It is shown above. I have implemented a part of the code which performs a part of the task. I need to do the other part now.