RE: xml.etree.ElementTree if element does not exist?

From	Ombongi Moraa Fe <moraa.lovetakes2@gmail.com>
Date	2013-04-29 13:26 +0300
Subject	RE: xml.etree.ElementTree if element does not exist?
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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Good Afternoon,

Among other elements values that my script finds is value for sepid

sepid = content.find(".//{http://www.huawei.com.cn/schema/common/v2_1}sepid
").text


however, if i pass xml data that DOES NOT contain sepid element, i get an
error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/receive.py", line 21, in <module>
    sepid = content.find(".//{
http://www.huawei.com.cn/schema/common/v2_1}sepid").text
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'


some messages i receive will have the sepid parameter, other will not have
this parameter. How can i cater for this? kinda like an if .. else
implementation for xml.etree.ElementTree  ?



Thanks in advance.

Saludos

Ombongi Moraa Faith

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RE: xml.etree.ElementTree if element does not exist? Ombongi Moraa Fe <moraa.lovetakes2@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 13:26 +0300
  Re: xml.etree.ElementTree if element does not exist? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-04-29 12:25 +0000
    Re: xml.etree.ElementTree if element does not exist? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-04-29 12:29 +0000

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