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MAB
MAB

Reputation: 43

how to get node value from xml string in Python

I have the following xml string and I want to get the value from ReturnCode in Python. How can I easily do this?

I've tried using element tree:

tree = ET.ElementTree(ET.fromstring(response))
root = tree.getroot()

<API>
    <Result>
        <ErrorCode ErrorType=\"Success\">0</ErrorCode>
        <ReturnCode>0</ReturnCode>
    </Result>
<API>

The actual response value looks like this- 

'<API><Result><ErrorCode ErrorType=\"Success\">0</ErrorCode<ReturnCode>0</ReturnCode></Result><API>'

I would like to be able to use the value from ReturnCode for additional logic.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7272

Answers (1)

Wei Huang
Wei Huang

Reputation: 174

As official documents xml.etree.elementtree. Parse your xml document like this:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
# root = ET.fromstring(your_xml_content)
# root.tag
body = '<API><Result><ErrorCode ErrorType="Success">0</ErrorCode><ReturnCode>0</ReturnCode></Result></API>'
response = ET.fromstring(body)
result = response.findall('Result')[0]
return_code = result.find('ReturnCode').text

## output '0'

Updated: I missed result.

Upvotes: 2

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