Retrieve attribute names and values with Python / lxml and XPath

Question

I am using XPath with Python lxml (Python 2). I run through two passes on the data, one to select the records of interest, and one to extract values from the data. Here is a

Answer 1

You should try following:

for node in nodes:
    print node.attrib

This will return dict of all attributes of node as {'id': '1', 'weight': '80', 'height': '160'}

If you want to get something like [('@id', '1'), ('@height', '160'), ('@weight', '80')]:

list_of_attributes = []
for node in nodes:
    attrs = []
    for att in node.attrib:
        attrs.append(("@" + att, node.attrib[att]))
    list_of_attributes.append(attrs)

Output:

[[('@id', '1'), ('@height', '160'), ('@weight', '80')], [('@id', '2'), ('@weight', '70')], [('@id', '3'), ('@height', '140')]]