Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: dieter Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: I seem to be creating a dict that I cannot access the keys of Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:50:39 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <8c9b5b13-c6cc-458d-9d31-56f7e5db10c4@googlegroups.com> <871t3llnao.fsf@handshake.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de BiCYG1byUMRO4M5QK1+r0QhetkHtLXZMxRPVzmqeNBtg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:zIO5FF845AWZyvdo6DlBJgSC7HY= Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'string.': 0.04; 'exception.': 0.07; 'inserted': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:keys': 0.09; 'wrong,': 0.09; 'output': 0.13; 'def': 0.13; 'commented': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:dip0.t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'received:t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'result:': 0.16; 'subject:access': 0.16; 'surprising': 0.16; 'obviously': 0.16; 'string': 0.17; 'attribute': 0.18; 'versions': 0.20; 'file.': 0.22; 'code.': 0.23; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'skip:e 30': 0.27; 'str': 0.29; 'subject:that': 0.29; 'print': 0.30; 'comments': 0.30; 'code': 0.30; 'something': 0.35; 'should': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'wrong': 0.38; 'anything': 0.38; 'means': 0.39; 'does': 0.39; 'subject:the': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'received:de': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'sample': 0.63; 'here': 0.66; 'obvious': 0.76; 'composing': 0.84; 'successively': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p57b39a59.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.22 (linux) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <871t3llnao.fsf@handshake.de> X-Mailman-Original-References: <8c9b5b13-c6cc-458d-9d31-56f7e5db10c4@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:110494 Sayth Renshaw writes: > ... > Can I ask is there something obvious wrong, i have left the commented other versions in they "work" in that they all produce the same output the print whole file. > The code below is obviously wrong - it is surprising that you get anything other than an exception. See comments below inserted into your code. > def parseXML(): > ... > result = etree.tostring(tree.getroot(), pretty_print=True) "result" here is obviously a string. > for sample in result: This means that "sample" successively hold the characters composing the string "result". > noms = (dict(zip(atts, map(sample.attrib.get, atts)))) You should get "AttributeError: str object does not have attribute `attrib`".