I'm getting the error below when I'm parsing the xml from the URL in the code. I won't post the XML because it's huge. The link is in the code below.
ERROR:
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AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-70-77e5e1b79ccc> in <module>()
11
12 for child in root.iter('Materia'):
---> 13 if not child.find('EmentaMateria').text is None:
14 ementa = child.find('EmentaMateria').text
15
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'
MY CODE:
url = '
import requests
from xml.etree import ElementTree
response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
response.raw.decode_content = True
tree = ElementTree.parse(response.raw)
root = tree.getroot()
for child in root.iter('Materia'):
if child.find('EmentaMateria').text is not None:
ementa = child.find('EmentaMateria').text
for child_IdMateria in child.findall('IdentificacaoMateria'):
anoMateria = child_IdMateria.find('AnoMateria').text
materia = child_IdMateria.find('NumeroMateria').text
siglaMateria = child_IdMateria.find('SiglaSubtipoMateria').text
print('Ano = '+anoMateria+' | Numero Materia = '+materia+' | tipo = '+siglaMateria+' | '+ementa)
What I'm overlooking here? Thanks
2 Answers
Instead of checking if child.find('EmentaMateria').text is not None, you should make sure that child.find('EmentaMateria') is not None first.
Also, you should store the returning value of child.find('EmentaMateria') to avoid calling it twice.
Lastly, you should assign ementa a default value if child.find('EmentaMateria') is None; otherwise your print function below will be referencing an un-initialized variable.
Change:
if child.find('EmentaMateria').text is not None:
ementa = child.find('EmentaMateria').text
to:
node = child.find('EmentaMateria')
if node is not None:
ementa = node.text
else:
ementa = None
Alternatively, you can use the built-in function getattr to do the same without a temporary variable:
ementa = getattr(child.find('EmentaMateria'), 'text', None)
If you are using the code to parse an xml file, open the xml file with a text editor and inspect the tags. In my case there were some rogue tags at the end. Once i removed those, the code worked as expected.
