python xml ElementTree exception for tag not found

Question

I'm using ElementTree to successfully pull values from specific tags in an xml file. To add some level of protection I'd like to throw and exception if a required tag is not present.

I found that ElementTree returns a value of "None" in place of a missing tag. But I can't even get that to work to my advantage :(

value = xmlTree.findtext('tag')
print value

Will print 'None" if the tag "tag" isn't present.

So I tried

if value == "None":
    print "tag not present"

But for some reason it won't catch it???

My next thought was to see if ElementTree had a build in exception that would detect a missing tag, but had no luck with that either.

Acorn · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-15 00:12:59Z

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"None" _{(a string)} is not the same as None _{(a constant representing the absense of a value)}.

edited Dec 15, 2011 at 0:12

answered Dec 15, 2011 at 0:07

Acorn

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