How to extract xml attribute using Python ElementTree

Question

For:

 text

How do I get \"value\"?

xml.findtext(\"./bar[@key]         


        

Answer 1

This will find the first instance of an element named bar and return the value of the attribute key.

In [52]: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

In [53]: xml=ET.fromstring(contents)

In [54]: xml.find('./bar').attrib['key']
Out[54]: 'value'