> > The code below is obviously wrong - it is surprising that you get > anything other than an exception. See comments below inserted into > your code. > > > def parseXML(): > > ... > > result = etree.tostring(tree.getroot(), pretty_print=True) > > "result" here is obviously a string. > > > for sample in result: > > This means that "sample" successively hold the characters composing > the string "result". > > > noms = (dict(zip(atts, map(sample.attrib.get, atts)))) > > You should get "AttributeError: str object does not have attribute `attrib`".
The attrib is an lxml function, when you have defined a root http://lxml.de/tutorial.html >>> attributes = root.attrib or >>> d = dict(root.attrib) >>> sorted(d.items()) [('hello', 'Guten Tag'), ('interesting', 'totally')] if I run it with this section as you reference above for sample in root.xpath('//race/nomination'): noms = (dict(zip(atts, map(sample.attrib.get, atts)))) print(noms) I get working output (pyxml) [sayth@localhost pyXML]$ python xrace.py data/ -e .xml {'barrier': '5', 'horse': 'Chipanda', 'goodtrack': '0-0-0-0', 'weight': '54', 'pricestarting': '$3.50', 'age': '3', 'description': 'B F 2 Sepoy x Lobola (Anabaa(USA))', 'heavytrack': '0-0-0-0', 'career': '2-0-0-2 $30225.00', 'colours': 'Royal Blue', 'finished': '1', 'owners': 'Godolphin ', 'dob': '2013-10-08T00:00:00', 'id': '198926', 'thisdistance': '0-0-0-0', 'weightvariation': '0', 'penalty': '0', 'number': '8', 'rating': '0', 'sex': 'F', 'decimalmargin': '0.00', 'variedweight': '54', 'saddlecloth': '8', 'thistrack': '1-0-0-1 $15000.00'} {'barrier': '1', 'horse': 'Legerity', 'goodtrack': '3-1-0-1 $77150.00', 'weight': '57.5', 'pricestarting': '$2.50F', 'age': '3', 'description': 'B C 2 Snitzel x Cheers Sayth -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
