Get list of XML attribute values in Python

Question

I need to get a list of attribute values from child elements in Python.

It\'s easiest to explain with an example.

Given some XML like this:

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Answer 1

You can do this with BeautifulSoup

>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xml)
>>> def getValues(name):
. . .      return [child['value'] for child in soup.find('parent', attrs={'name': name}).findAll('child')]

If you're doing work with HTML/XML I would recommend you take a look at BeautifulSoup. It's similar to the DOM tree but contains more functionality.