Sayth Renshaw schrieb am 08.02.2015 um 12:22:
> How can I actually access the values of an element with lxml objectify?
>
> for example if I had this element in my xml file.
>
> <Track VenueName="Flemington" VenueDesc="Flemington" VenueAbbr="FLEM"
> VenueCode="151" TrackName="Main" TrackCode="149">
>
> I can see all the attributes using this.
>
> In [86]: for child in root.getchildren():
> print(child.attrib)
> ....:
> {}
> {'RequestCode': '', 'RequestId': '0'}
> {}
> {}
> ...
> {}
> {}
> {}
> {'Category': 'Metro', 'AbrClubDesc': 'VRC', 'State': 'VIC', 'ClubCode':
> '10018', 'Title': 'Victoria Racing Club'}
> {'TrackName': 'Main', 'VenueName': 'Flemington', 'TrackCode': '149',
> 'VenueAbbr': 'FLEM', 'VenueDesc': 'Flemington', 'VenueCode': '151'}
> {}
> {}
> ...
>
> Trying to access by attribs isn't working or me.
>
> In [90]: names = [p.text for p in root.Track.attrib['VenueName']]
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
> <ipython-input-90-8e4bdae01d63> in <module>()
> ----> 1 names = [p.text for p in root.Track.attrib['VenueName']]
>
> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'text'
As you can see from the output above, "attrib" is a mapping from strings
(attribute names) to strings (attribute values). So just use
name = root.Track.attrib['VenueName']
or, even simpler:
name = root.Track.get('VenueName')
Stefan
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