how to use fromstring for xml parsing by ElementTree using python?

Question

xml code is this

<foo>
<bar key="value">text</bar>
</foo>

Python code is:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
xml=ET.fromstring(contents)
xml.find('./bar').attrib['key']

Output: 'value'

What must be placed in contents place of the above python code to get the value as output?

If i write as contents only it is giving an error as contents not defined.

If i write whole big xml file in contents , still it pops that there is a syntax error in that line. — Nikhil Valiveti
– Nikhil Valiveti, Commented May 31, 2017 at 8:16

mzjn · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-01 12:12:11Z

2

It works if the XML is provided as a triple-quoted string. This allows you to include unescaped quotes within the string.

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

contents = """
<foo>
<bar key="value">text</bar>
</foo>"""

xml = ET.fromstring(contents)
print xml.find('./bar').attrib['key']

answered Jun 1, 2017 at 12:12

mzjn

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