A Simple Python Elementtree Example
I just which folks would include simple examples of stuff like XML parsing with ElementTree in Python. Here is mine.
# http://www.amk.ca/talks/2006-02-07/ # http://docs.python.org/lib/elementtree-functions.html # http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm#searching-for-subelements import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET input = '''''' stuff = ET.fromstring(input) lst = stuff.findall("users/user") print len(lst) for item in lst: print item.attrib["x"] item = lst[0] ET.dump(item) item.get("x") # get works on attributes item.find("id").text item.find("id").tag for user in stuff.getiterator('user') : print "User" , user.attrib["x"] ET.dump(user) 001 Chuck 009 Brent
