Store XML values as Python list

Question

I have XML stored as a string "vincontents", formatted as such:

<response>
    <data>
        <vin>1FT7X2B69CEC76666</vin>
    </data>
    <data>
        <vin>1GNDT13S452225555</vin>
    </data>
</response>

I'm trying to use Python's elementtree library to parse out the VIN values into an array or Python list. I'm only interested in the values, not the tags.

def parseVins():
content = etree.fromstring(vincontents)
vins = content.findall("data/vin")
print vins

Outputs all of the tag information:

[<Element 'vin' at 0x2d2eef0>, <Element 'vin' at 0x2d2efd0> ....

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-16 20:23:32Z

4

Use .text property:

>>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
>>> data = """<response>
...     <data>
...         <vin>1FT7X2B69CEC76666</vin>
...     </data>
...     <data>
...         <vin>1GNDT13S452225555</vin>
...     </data>
... </response>"""
>>> tree = etree.fromstring(data)
>>> [el.text for el in tree.findall('.//data/vin')]
['1FT7X2B69CEC76666', '1GNDT13S452225555']

edited Jun 16, 2014 at 20:23

answered Jun 16, 2014 at 20:17

alecxe

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