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MERose
MERose

Reputation: 4421

Ignore/Flatten xml element in python3

My xml element looks like this:

<para>Lorem ipsum (R<inf>0</inf>) dolor sit amnet</para>

Trying to get the entire text with 

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

xml = ET.fromstring('<para>Lorem ipsum (R<inf>0</inf>) dolor sit amnet</para>')
xml.text

results in 'Lorem ipsum (R'. Hence, the part after <inf> is completely ignored. How can I make the xml parser ignore/delete this element?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 160

Answers (1)

MERose
MERose

Reputation: 4421

The solution is plain and simple: Join the elements returned from .itertext():

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

xml = ET.fromstring('<para>Lorem ipsum (R<inf>0</inf>) dolor sit amnet</para>')
''.join(xml.itertext())

Credits go out to Jon Clements.

Upvotes: 2

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