objectifiedetree
Overview
Wouldn't it be nice to use dot notation for ElementTrees? This package allows for:
tree = ET.fromstring('<root><a><b c="asdf" /></a></root>')
a = tree.a
b = a.b
b.attrib['c'] == "asdf" # True
tree.a
will be a Element
with the extra __getattr__
method. This means that you can use the element as you would do normally, but names in your XML that crases with python's methods or attributes must be accessed through tree.find(xpath)
.
This package uses the python implementation of etree, which makes it slower than etree found in CPython. An alternative would be to monkey-patch the built-in with forbiddenfruit, but I haven't looked into this.
objectifiedetree
has copied the python implementation of etree from CPython 3.4 Lib/xml/etree and will probably only work with Python 3.4.
Installation
Install using pip
...
pip install objectifiedetree
Example
from objectifiedetree import *
tree = ET.parse('/path/to/file.xml')
# dot notation :-)
el = tree.xpath.to.your.element
# use normal etree attributes
print(el.attrib)
# access name crashes
attrib_el = el.find('./attrib')
Development
Install dependencies and link development version of objectifiedetree to pip:
git clone https://github.com/arve0/objectifiedetree
cd objectifiedetree
pip install -r requirements.txt # install dependencies and objectifiedetree-package
Testing
tox
Build documentation locally
To build the documentation:
pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
make docs