import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
PATENTS = ‘patent.data’
def get_root(fname):
tree = ET.parse(fname)
return tree.getroot()
def split_file(filename):
pass
def test():
split_file(PATENTS)
for n in range(4):
try:
fname = “{}-{}”.format(PATENTS, n)
f = open(fname, “r”)
if not f.readline().startswith(“
