Parsing xml using python not working as expected

Question

<?xml version="1.0" ?> 
<Data>  
    <Channels>
        <channel0 ChannelName="Name1" />
        <channel1 ChannelName="Name2" />
        <channel2 ChannelName="Name3" />
    </Channels> 
</Data>

For some reason when I parse this from the xml file which has the above data in it, I only get it to print out channel0 Name1, it skips out the rest of the channels. Not sure if I'm missing something, or if I made a mistake. Could someone help me out? Thanks!

root = et.parse(path).getroot()    
for child in root:    
    for element in child:
        print element.tag, element.attrib['ChannelName']

johnashu · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-09 02:09:23Z

1

I tried this in Python 3.6 and it printed out all three channels

import xml.etree.cElementTree as et

path = 'test.xml'

root = et.parse(path).getroot()    
for child in root:    
    for element in child:
        print(element.tag, element.attrib['ChannelName'])

output

channel0 Name1
channel1 Name2
channel2 Name3

answered Dec 9, 2017 at 2:09

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dege Over a year ago

Oh good to know the code works... got to figure out what's wrong with the xml file then I guess. Thanks johnashu!

dege Over a year ago

I think I figured out why it didn't work for me. I'm trying this through maya and maya uses python 2.7. Will have to figure out how to do the same thing without using elementTree

dege Over a year ago

Ok this is bugging me now, for some reason the above code actually works if I run it through maya's script editor, but it doesn't work when I source the script.

johnashu Over a year ago

maybe there is a version number difference. Check to see what version of element tree maya is using, then be sure to use the same version..use pip freeze to get the version requirements

dege Over a year ago

I don't have pip installed where I work. Is there any other way to check the version?

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