Python - Element Tree find

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I have an xml string that looks something like this: I am using the Element Tree library ``` truetrue20081 ``` I want to get some values of the Category Node, let's call them Wanted Parms 1 and 2. However I am getting an AttributeError probably because the code I wrote is not able to find the child node of the Category item. AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'. ``` import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET XML = #Above Code in String tree = ET.ElementTree(ET.fromstring(XML)) root = tree.getroot() for Category in root[0]: one = Category.find("WantedParm1").text two = Category.find("WantedParm2").text print(one, two) ```

Accepted Answer

The XML elements are in the default namespace `urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents` So all tags get prepended with the full URI of the namespace.

Changing your `find()` parameter to include the URI should work.

```
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
XML = #Above Code in String
tree = ET.ElementTree(ET.fromstring(XML))
root = tree.getroot()
for Category in root[0]:
    one = Category.find("{urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents}WantedParm1").text
    two = Category.find("{urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents}WantedParm2").text
    print(one, two)
```

You can find more information on dealing with namespaces on the element tree docs here or this stack overflow post.

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