Question

I usually do the following:

nextPreset = element.firstChild
while nextPreset != None:
    #doThings
    nextPreset = nextPreset.nextSibling

I was wondering if there were something like:

for child in element.children:
    #doThings

I saw a method _get_childNodes, but it is private…

Answer 1

If you do that several times in one project, you could use

def iterate_children(parent):
    child = parent.firstChild
    while child != None:
        yield child
        child = child.nextSibling

and then do

for child in iterate_children(element):
    # foo