In my xml file, I have nodes like this:
<waitingJobs idList="J03ac2db8 J03ac2fb0"/>
I know how to use .findall to search for attributes but now, it looks like I would need to use regular expressions because I can't just use
root.findall('./[@attrib='value']')
I'd have to use
root.findall('./[@attrib='*value*']')
QUESTION
xml.etree?lxml?Unfortunately, things like contains() and starts-with() are not supported by xml.etree.ElementTree built-in library. You can manually check the attribute, finding all waitingJobs and using .attrib to get to the idList value:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
data = """<jobs>
<waitingJobs idList="J03ac2db8 J03ac2fb0"/>
</jobs>
"""
root = ET.fromstring(data)
value = 'J03ac2db8'
print([elm for elm in root.findall(".//waitingJobs[@idList]")
if value in elm.attrib["idList"]])
With lxml.etree, you can use xpath() method and contains() function:
import lxml.etree as ET
data = """<jobs>
<waitingJobs idList="J03ac2db8 J03ac2fb0"/>
</jobs>
"""
root = ET.fromstring(data)
value = 'J03ac2db8'
print(root.xpath(".//waitingJobs[contains(@idList, '%s')]" % value))
lxml. For how sucky xml.etree is, why is it still included in Python? Why isn't lxml the default????