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Bunny Rabbit
Bunny Rabbit

Reputation: 8411

Beautiful soup how print a tag while iterating over it

My xml looks like this, I want to get the locations. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
 <trackList>
  <track>
   <location>file:///home/ashu/Music/Collections/randomPicks/ipod%20on%20sep%2009/Coldplay-Sparks.mp3</location>
   <title>Coldplay-Sparks</title>
  </track>
  <track>
   <location>file:///home/ashu/Music/Collections/randomPicks/gud%201s/Coldplay%20Warning%20sign.mp3</location>
   <title>Coldplay Warning sign</title>
  </track>....

I am trying:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as bs
soup = bs (the_above_xml_text)
for track in soup.tracklist:
    print track.location.string

But that is not working because I am getting:

AttributeError: 'NavigableString' object has no attribute 'location'

How can I achieve the result, thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1269

Answers (2)

bakkal
bakkal

Reputation: 55448

You can use findAll :

>>> for track in soup.findAll('track'):
...     print track.title.string
...     print track.location.string
... 
Coldplay-Sparks
file:///home/ashu/Music/Collections/randomPicks/ipod%20on%20sep%2009/Coldplay-Sparks.mp3
Coldplay Warning sign
file:///home/ashu/Music/Collections/randomPicks/gud%201s/Coldplay%20Warning%20sign.mp3

Upvotes: 0

nosklo
nosklo

Reputation: 223062

Use lxml, it's faster and supports xpath:

>>> doc = lxml.etree.fromstring(yourxml)
>>> doc.xpath('//n:location/text()', namespaces={'n': 'http://xspf.org/ns/0/'})
['file:///home/ashu/Music/Collections/randomPicks/ipod%20on%20sep%2009/Coldplay-Sparks.mp3',
'file:///home/ashu/Music/Collections/randomPicks/gud%201s/Coldplay%20Warning%20sign.mp3']

Upvotes: 1

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