Sayth Renshaw <flebber.c...@gmail.com> writes: >> 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
Correctly, this should read: "attrib" is an attribute of "ETree" nodes (!) (providing a mapping like access to the nodes attributes). It is *NOT* an attribute of string (!) objects. You have converted the tree root into a string (using "etree.tostring") and then iterated over the resulting string. On those characters you access "attrib" - which will not work as you expect. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
