理解lxml module in Python

• Overview

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  Python 爬虫利器三之 Xpath 语法与 lxml 库的用法

  The ElementTree XML API in Python

  The lxml XML toolkit is a Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt. It is unique in that it combines the speed and XML feature completeness of these libraries with the simplicity of a native Python API, mostly compatible but superior to the well-known ElementTree API. The latest release works with all CPython versions from 2.7 to 3.9.

• Tutorial

  • the lxml.etree tutorial for XML processing
  • John Shipman’s tutorial on Python XML processing with lxml
  • Fredrik Lundh’s tutorial for ElementTree

  pip install lxml
  from lxml import etree
  root = etree.Element("root")
  root.append(etree.Element("child1"))
  child2 = etree.SubElement(root, "child2")
  chile3 = etree.SubElement(root, "child3")
  # Elements are lists
  child = root[0]
  root[0].getparent()
  etree.tostring(root)
  # Elements carry attributes as a dict
  root1 = etree.Element("root", interesting="totally")
  root1.get("interesting")
  root1.set("hello","Huhu")
  etree.tostring(root)
  root1.keys()# display all the attributes
  root1.attrib # return a dict
  # Elements contain text
  root2 = etree.Element("root")
  root2.text = "TEXT"
  etree.tostring(root2,with_tail=False,method="text")
  ####### Using XPath to find text
  html.xpath("string()")
  html.xpath("//text()")