[FIXED] Extracting data from xml with Python 3

Issue

I am trying to extract figures from a series of xml data.

The xml data looks like:

<commentinfo>
  <note>This file contains the sample data for testing</note>
    <comments>
    <comment>
      <name>Romina</name>
      <count>97</count>
</comment>

And so on with a new name and comment.

My code is:

import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

url = 'http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_42.xml'

uh = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
data = uh.read()
# print(data)

tree = ET.fromstring(data)
# print('Name:',tree.find('count').text)
lst = tree.findall('comments/comment/count')
# print(len(lst))
# print(lst)
# x1 = result[1].find('comment')

# for item in lst:
#     print('Count', item.find('count').text)

counts = tree.findall('.//count')
print(counts)

When I print counts I get a longer version of:

<Element 'count' at 0x000000000A09FB88>, <Element 'count' at 0x000000000A09FC78>, <Element 'count' at 0x000000000A09FD68>, <Element 'count' at 0x000000000A09FE58>, <Element 'count' at 0x000000000A09FF48>, <Element 'count' at 0x000000000A0A3098>]

I am quite new to this, so I don't understand why I am getting these hex numbers, nor do I know how to extract the actual figures.

I am hoping someone can help.

Solution

Just loop through the list and print the text of each element.

import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

url = 'http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_42.xml'

uh = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
data = uh.read()

tree = ET.fromstring(data)

lst = tree.findall('comments/comment/count')

counts = tree.findall('.//count')

for each in counts:
    print(each.text)

Answered By - kyle