Get attribute names and values from ElementTree

Question

I have an XML element with several attributes. I\'ve been using the ElementTree package.

After I\'ve parsed a tree from an xml fil

Answer 1

Each Element has an attribute .attrib that is a dictionary; simply use it's mapping methods to ask it for it's keys or values:

for name, value in root.attrib.items():
    print '{0}="{1}"'.format(name, value)

or

for name in root.attrib:
    print '{0}="{1}"'.format(name, root.attrib[name])

or use .values() or any of the other methods available on a python dict.

To get an individual attribute, use the standard subscription syntax:

print root.attrib['a']