How to not load the comments while parsing XML in lxml

Question

I try to parse XML file in Python using lxml like this:

objectify.parse(xmlPath, parserWithSchema)

but XML file may contains comments in strange places:

<root>
    <text>Sam<!--comment-->ple text</text>
    <!--comment-->
    <float>1.2<!--comment-->3456</float>
</root>

It is a way to not load or delete comments before parsing?

Answer 1

Set remove_comments=True on the parser (documentation):

from lxml import etree, objectify

parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_comments=True)
tree = objectify.parse(xmlPath, parser=parser)

Or, using the makeparser() method:

parser = objectify.makeparser(remove_comments=True)
tree = objectify.parse(xmlPath, parser=parser)

Hope that helps.