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

The attrib attribute of an ElementTree element (like the root returned by getroot) is a dictionary. So you can do, for example:

from xml.etree import ElementTree
tree = ElementTree.parse('test.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
print root.attrib

which will output, for your example

{'a': '1', 'b': '2', 'c': '3'}