selecting attribute values from lxml

Question

I want to use an xpath expression to get the value of an attribute.

I expected the following to work

from lxml import etree

for customer in etree.pa         


        

Answer 1

find and findall only implement a subset of XPath. Their presence is meant to provide compatibility with other ElementTree implementations (like ElementTree and cElementTree).

The xpath method, in contrast, provides full access to XPath 1.0:

print customer.xpath('./@NAME')[0]

However, you could instead use get:

print customer.get('NAME')

or attrib:

print customer.attrib['NAME']