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Jakub Janek
Jakub Janek

Reputation: 46

Python change xml attribute

Python 2 Is it posible to change xml file using python when

<Label name="qotl_type_label" position="910,980" font="headline_light" />

Search by name attribute and then change position?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 439

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 474271

You can use the built-in xml.etree.ElementTree module to parse the XML, locate the Label element and change the position attribute via .attrib property:

>>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
>>>
>>> s = '<root><Label name="qotl_type_label" position="910,980" font="headline_light" /></root>'
>>>
>>> root = ET.fromstring(s)
>>> label = root.find(".//Label[@name='qotl_type_label']")
>>> label.attrib['position'] = 'new,position'
>>> ET.tostring(root)
'<root><Label font="headline_light" name="qotl_type_label" position="new,position" /></root>'

Note that the order of attributes is not preserved, attributes are unordered by definition.

Upvotes: 1

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