Question

I’m reading XML file using Etree module. Im using following code to print the value of <page> and <title> tags. My code working fine. But I want little change. If the <page id='...'> attribute id is exists then print the value of tag. Is it possible? thanks

import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
from pprint import pprint
tree = etree.parse('find_title.xml')
for value in tree.getiterator(tag='title'):
    print value.text
for value in tree.getiterator(tag='page'):
    pprint(value.attrib)

Here is my xml File.

 <mediawiki>
      <siteinfo>
        <sitename>Wiki</sitename>
        <namespaces>
          <namespace key="-2" case="first-letter">Media</namespace>
        </namespaces>
      </siteinfo>
    <page id="31239628" orglength="6822" newlength="4524" stub="0" categories="0" outlinks="1" urls="10">
    <title>Title</title>
    <categories></categories>
    <links>15099779</links>
    <urls>
    </urls>
    <text>

    Books

    </text>
    </page>

    </mediawiki>

Answer 1

for el in tree.getiterator(tag='page'):
    page_id = el.get('id', None) # returns second arg if id not exists
    if page_id:
        print page_id, el.find('title').text
    else:
        pprint(el.attrib)

Edit: Updated for commment: “Thanks can i print page_id and title at same time? Means 31239628 – Title”