Parsing XML files with Python (xml.etree.ElementTree)

Thanks a lot for the great tutorial. Your approach to XML parsing was spot-on for me and it was exactly what I was looking for to get started on XML parsing.

shitty video, sorry

Excellent man!
This is what I was looking for :)

That's how it is supposed to be taught. I have been browsing the courses on how to do it and they all are complicated. Thankfully found this video. Thanks a lot. Great job!

Is there a way to change sub-element instead of the whole element string? let's say for example that I want to change W with SW but not the name, and I need to do it in a loop so I can't put the name string inside as it changes anytime, is there a way to call the specific sub element?

can you mass edit multiple files?

Thanks a lot for this video. I couldn't grasp the concepts properly even after reading from books. This video made it look like piece of cake.

hii franseco great video thanks i need small suggestion here let's saya <KTOPL> 100</KTOPL> so in this i need output like KTOPL 100 here i need tag and value both how we can get can u please explian

Great video. Thanks

Thanks for this video, I needed to parse xml from a variable instead of a file and found this : xml_data_tree = ET.fromstring(received_packet)

Hi Francesco,
i'm getting error while parsing xml file since it is having special words. kindly hep me to avoid this error.
Error : xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 277, column 366

thank you for this

thanks a lot

Merge XML files using python,can you please make video on this top

Increase your font size before doing tutorials. its quite complicated to read texts. anyway goodjob

Hi Francesco, Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. I have a doubt if we want to get a element based on the value of other element , how can we do. I want if attachment is local, print symid. Can you or someone else here please help me here.
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" ?>
<SymCLI_ML>
<Box>
<Symm_Info>
<symid>000120000369</symid>
<attachment>Local</attachment>
<model>model1</model>
<microcode_version>6079</microcode_version>
<cache_megabytes>250880</cache_megabytes>
<cache_gigabytes>245.0</cache_gigabytes>
<devices>8532</devices>
<physical_devices>502</physical_devices>
</Symm_Info>
</Box>
<Box>
<Symm_Info>
<symid>000120000566</symid>
<attachment>Local</attachment>
<model>model2</model>
<microcode_version>6079</microcode_version>
<cache_megabytes>520192</cache_megabytes>
<cache_gigabytes>508.0</cache_gigabytes>
<devices>10391</devices>
<physical_devices>512</physical_devices>
</Symm_Info>
</Box>
<Box>
<Symm_Info>
<symid>000120000568</symid>
<attachment>Local</attachment>
<model>model3</model>
<microcode_version>6079</microcode_version>
<cache_megabytes>165888</cache_megabytes>
<cache_gigabytes>162.0</cache_gigabytes>
<devices>19444</devices>
<physical_devices>880</physical_devices>
</Symm_Info>
</Box>
</SymCLI_ML>

Go raibh céad maith agat, a Francesco. Rud a bhí de dhíth orm le fada. Pádraig Mac Con Uladh

looking forword...

thanks a lot ❤

Can this be done by Beautifulsoup library?

Hi Francesco. Thanks for the great video! I ran into an error after editing my xml file. I tried to view the entire file to make sure my changes were made with ET.dump(tree) and I always get "AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'items'" I'm testing with Jupyter notebook and when I restart the kernel, ET.dump works just fine before I make changes to the file. Any idea on how to fix this? I'm new to Python.

Grazie Mille!!! That was exactly what I was looking for and all well explained!!!

Hi Francesco! I have been trying to do something with elementtree for several days but it is impossible for me ... And it gives me the feeling that it is very simple. I want to make a little script that adds a child element only if it doesn't already have it. Imagine that the document lacks year to panama. My script would go through the xml document and add only the year to Panama ... Could you give me some idea please?
Many thanks.

How to install xmltree in python 2.7.5
I am not able to upgrade due to restriction