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

In Python 3.x, fetching a list of attributes is a simple task of using the member items()

Using the ElementTree, below snippet shows a way to get the list of attributes. NOTE that this example doesn't consider namespaces, which if present, will need to be accounted for.

    import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

    flName = 'test.xml'
    tree = ET.parse(flName)
    root = tree.getroot()
    for element in root.findall(''):
        attrList = element.items()
        print(len(attrList), " : [", attrList, "]" )

REFERENCE:

Element.items()
Returns the element attributes as a sequence of (name, value) pairs.
The attributes are returned in an arbitrary order.

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