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Dan
Dan

Reputation: 773

Split lxml etree into multiple etree objects Python

Is there a function to split an etree object set of child elements into multiple etree objects by index? For example, if my root node had say 400 children each with descendants, could I get 4 etree objects from each second of the file?

from lxml import etree as ET

tree = ET.parse('FileName.xml')
root = tree.getroot()

firstquarter = root.getchildren()   #function to get 0-100 of the child nodes
secondquarter = root.getchildren()  #function to get 101-200 of the child nodes
thirdquarter = root.getchildren()   #function to get 201-300 of the child nodes
fourthquarter = root.getchildren()  #function to get 301-400 of the child nodes

Upvotes: 2

Views: 172

Answers (1)

Jack Fleeting
Jack Fleeting

Reputation: 24930

You should be able to do it simply with something like

firstquarter = root.getchildren()[0:100]

etc.

Upvotes: 1

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