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Jim
Jim

Reputation: 1357

Search child element in ET

I'm trying to search an XML file. I need to

I can get to the localteam element but I'm not sure how to then search for the awayteam and also go 'up' a level to get the id... I've tried using child.iter() and child.find('awayteam'), but neither has worked..

Thus far I have..

for child in root.iter('localteam'):
    gs_name = child.get('name')
    if gs_name == 'Team A':
        print child.tag, child.attrib
        for step_child in child.iter():
            print step_child.tag, step_child.attrib
            gs_name = child.get('name')

XML

<scores sport="sports">
  <category name="NAME" id="1419" file_group="USA">
      <match date="21.07.2013" time="04:00" status="Finished" id="56456456">
         <localteam name="Team A" />
         <random name="yyy" />
         <awayteam name="Team B" />
         <random name="xxx" />
</match>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 81

Answers (1)

Fredrik
Fredrik

Reputation: 940

Search for match elements instead:

for match in root.iter("match"):
    if (match.find("localteam").get("name") == "Team A" and
        match.find("awayteam").get("name") == "Team B"):
        print match.get("id")
        break

The above will raise AttributeErrors if the find calls don't find anything, so you may want to add some additional checks or error handling; e.g.

for match in root.iter("match"):
    localteam = match.find("localteam")
    awayteam = match.find("awayteam")
    if localteam is not None and awayteam is not None and ...

Upvotes: 2

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