How do I extract value of XML attribute in Python?
Using ElementTree you can use find method & attrib .
Example:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
z = """<xml>
<child type = "smallHuman"/>
<adult type = "largeHuman"/>
</xml>"""
treeOne = ET.fromstring(z)
print treeOne.find('./child').attrib['type']
print treeOne.find('./adult').attrib['type']
Output:
smallHuman
largeHuman
To get the attribute value from an XML, you can do like this:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
xml_data = """<xml>
<child type = "smallHuman"/>
<adult type = "largeHuman"/>
</xml>"""
# This is like ET.parse(), but for strings
root = ET.fromstring(xml_data)
for a child in root:
print(child.tag, child.attrib)
You can find more details and examples on the link below: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html