Question

I’m trying to use ElementTree to create an html element with a class, like so:

nextLink = ElementTree.SubElement(root_element, "a", class="bah",href="www.bah.com")

However, I get the following error message:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I think it’s because ‘class’ is a reserved keyword in Python. If I change the spelling or case of class it works, but that doesn’t fix my problem as I need the output to be ‘class’.

Is there a workaround?

Thanks,

Answer 1

pass in a dict of ‘attrib’: ‘value’ pairs

nextLink = ElementTree.SubElement(
    root_element, 'a',
    {
        'class': 'bah',
        'href': 'www.bah.com'
    })