[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1) It appears as if the following logic works for determining whether
> an element is a parent:
>
> # assume elem is an ElementTree element
> if (elem.getchildren() == None):
> print 'this element is not a parent'
> else:
> print 'this element is a parent'
>
> My question is this: are there any other ways of determining whether an
> element is a parent, and if so, are they preferable to the method
> above?
if len(elem):
print "is a parent"
else:
print "is not a parent (has no children)"
(in 1.2.X, you can also write "if elem", but that use is discouraged.
see http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm#the-element-type for more
on this).
> 2) At one time, I thought I saw some notes indicating that the
> getchildren() method will be deprecated. Now, however, I cannot locate
> those notes. Has the getchildren() method been deprecated, or will it
> be deprecated?
an element is a sequence, so there's no need to ever call getchildren
(if you need a real list, use list(elem)).
getchildren() will most likely be removed in some future version of
ElementTree.
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