where is the Write method of ElementTree??

[gray.bowman]

I'm messing around with trying to write an xml file using
xml.etree.ElementTree. All the examples on the internet show the use
of ElementTree.write(), although when I try to use it it's not
available, gives me ...

ElementTree(sectionElement).write("section.xml")
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable


I'm new to python, so I think I'm doing something wrong.. any
thoughts?

Thanks.'


See code below:

# Create xml structure
sectionElement = ElementTree.Element("section")

# step through feed result and create elements for each article -
result[article]
for article in feedResult:
articleElement = ElementTree.Element("article")

titleElement = ElementTree.SubElement(articleElement, "title")
titleElement.text = article['title']

bodyElement = ElementTree.SubElement(articleElement, "body")
bodyElement.text = article['body']

sectionElement.append(articleElement)

#print ElementTree.tostring(sectionElement)
ElementTree(sectionElement).write("section.xml")

 

[John Machin]

I'm messing around with trying to write an xml file using
xml.etree.ElementTree. All the examples on the internet show the use
of ElementTree.write(), although when I try to use it it's not
available, gives me ...

ElementTree(sectionElement).write("section.xml")
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

I'm new to python, so I think I'm doing something wrong.. any
thoughts?

Thanks.'

See code below:

# Create xml structure
sectionElement = ElementTree.Element("section")

# step through feed result and create elements for each article -
result[article]
for article in feedResult:
articleElement = ElementTree.Element("article")

titleElement = ElementTree.SubElement(articleElement, "title")
titleElement.text = article['title']

bodyElement = ElementTree.SubElement(articleElement, "body")
bodyElement.text = article['body']

sectionElement.append(articleElement)

#print ElementTree.tostring(sectionElement)
ElementTree(sectionElement).write("section.xml")

It's complaining about
ElementTree(whatever)
As it says, you are trying to call a module.

Looks like you need:
sectionElement.write("section.xml")

HTH,
John

 

[Stefan Behnel]

I'm messing around with trying to write an xml file using
xml.etree.ElementTree. All the examples on the internet show the use
of ElementTree.write(), although when I try to use it it's not
available, gives me ...

ElementTree(sectionElement).write("section.xml")
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

I guess you did

from xml.etree import ElementTree

Then you should do this:

ElementTree.ElementTree(sectionElement).write("section.xml")

sadly, the module names in ET are upper case and look like classes...

Stefan

 

[gray.bowman]

I guess you did

from xml.etree import ElementTree

Then you should do this:

ElementTree.ElementTree(sectionElement).write("section.xml")

sadly, the module names in ET are upper case and look like classes...

Stefan

That was it! Thanks to both of you for helping.