- Parsing XML
<?xml version="1.0"?><data>
<country name="Liechtenstein">
<rank>1</rank>
<year>2008</year>
<gdppc>141100</gdppc>
<neighbor name="Austria" direction="E"/>
<neighbor name="Switzerland" direction="W"/>
</country>
<country name="Singapore">
<rank>4</rank>
<year>2011</year>
<gdppc>59900</gdppc>
<neighbor name="Malaysia" direction="N"/>
</country>
<country name="Panama">
<rank>68</rank>
<year>2011</year>
<gdppc>13600</gdppc>
<neighbor name="Costa Rica" direction="W"/>
<neighbor name="Colombia" direction="E"/>
</country></data>
We have a number of ways to import the data. Reading the file from disk:
代码语言:javascript复制import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse('country_data.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
Reading the data from a string:
代码语言:javascript复制root = ET.fromstring(country_data_as_string)
代码语言:javascript复制>>> root.tag
'data'
>>> root.attrib
{}
代码语言:javascript复制>>> for child in root:
... print child.tag, child.attrib
...
country {'name': 'Liechtenstein'}
country {'name': 'Singapore'}
country {'name': 'Panama'}
代码语言:javascript复制>>> root[0][1].text
'2008'
2.Finding interesting elements
代码语言:javascript复制>>> for neighbor in root.iter('neighbor'):
... print neighbor.attrib
...
{'name': 'Austria', 'direction': 'E'}
{'name': 'Switzerland', 'direction': 'W'}
{'name': 'Malaysia', 'direction': 'N'}
{'name': 'Costa Rica', 'direction': 'W'}
{'name': 'Colombia', 'direction': 'E'}
代码语言:javascript复制>>> for country in root.findall('country'):
... rank = country.find('rank').text
... name = country.get('name')
... print name, rank
...
Liechtenstein 1
Singapore 4
Panama 68