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ElementTree is a Python library for creating and parsing XML.

ElementTree is a Python library for creating and parsing XML.

from xml.etree import ElementTree

An alternative implementation on top of libxml and libxslt, with an expanded API is lxml, see the tag.

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Using XPath in ElementTree

My XML file looks like the following: 2260 …
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How can I check the existence of attributes and tags in XML before parsing?

I'm parsing an XML file via Element Tree in python and and writing the content to a cpp file. The content of children tags will be variant for different tags. For example first event tag has party tag as child but second event tag doesn't have.…
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Emitting namespace specifications with ElementTree in Python

I am trying to emit an XML file with element-tree that contains an XML declaration and namespaces. Here is my sample code: from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET ET.register_namespace('com',"http://www.company.com") #some name # build a tree…
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Using Python Iterparse For Large XML Files

I need to write a parser in Python that can process some extremely large files ( > 2 GB ) on a computer without much memory (only 2 GB). I wanted to use iterparse in lxml to do it. My file is of the format: Item 1 …
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Comparing XML in a unit test in Python

I have an object that can build itself from an XML string, and write itself out to an XML string. I'd like to write a unit test to test round tripping through XML, but I'm having trouble comparing the two XML versions. Whitespace and attribute order…
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Converting xml to dictionary using ElementTree

I'm looking for an XML to dictionary parser using ElementTree, I already found some but they are excluding the attributes, and in my case I have a lot of attributes.
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How to get all sub-elements of an element tree with Python ElementTree?

I want to find a way to get all the sub-elements of an element tree like the way ElementTree.getchildren() does, since getchildren() is deprecated since Python version 2.7. I don't want to use it anymore, though I can still use it currently.
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Python - ElementTree- cannot use absolute path on element

I'm getting this error in ElementTree when I try to run the code below: SyntaxError: cannot use absolute path on element My XML document looks like this: