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Majic Johnson
Majic Johnson

Reputation: 341

Using XML python library to acces data

I have a XML string as the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>\n<data serial="1234">\n    <ts>1418823725</ts>\n <r t="P" n="AA"><v>1596787</v><i>62</i></r>\n <r t="P" n="BB"><v>246995</v><i>63</i></r>\n <r t="P" n="CC"><v>0</v><i>0</i></r>\n</data>\n

I am trying to parse the string to get the this using xml library in python as follows:

for child in root.iter('r'):
    print child.attrib.get('t')
    print child.attrib.get('n')
    print child.text

output shows as:

P
AA
None
P
BB
None
P
CC
None

How can I access time stamp value <ts>, the number 62 63 and 0 for AA BB and CC?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 30

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 474161

findtext() would be handy here:

print root.findtext('ts')
print "----"

for child in root.iter('r'):
        print child.attrib.get('t'), child.attrib.get('n'), child.findtext('i')

Prints:

1418823725
----
P AA 62
P BB 63
P CC 0

Upvotes: 2

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