Python etree.ElementTree findall function


 
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Old 03-02-2018
Python etree.ElementTree findall function

Hi everyone.
I'm trying to learn python as it relates to parsing xml, and I thought I would start by trying to create an easy (or I thought would be easy) function
to match on a certain attribute in an xml file and print out it's related attribute.

Here's an example to hopeful make sense of what I'm trying to produce.

I want to convert the following working function from:
Code:
def getAttribute():
    for man in e.findall("{raml50.xsd}Data/{raml50.xsd}managedObject[@class='hark']"):
       print (man.get('distName'))

To something where I can subsitute 'hark' with whatever class attribute I want to search on, to
something like the NON-WORKING function:
Code:
def tstAttribute(get):
    for man in e.findall("{raml50.xsd}Data/{raml50.xsd}managedObject[ @class= \'%s\' ]" %(get)):
       print (man.get('distName'))

I've tried several different ways into subsituing the class attribute, but I can't seem to get this figured out.

Here are some of the ways I tried:
Code:
for man in e.findall("{raml50.xsd}Data/{raml50.xsd}managedObject[ @class= \'%s\' ]" %(get)):
for man in e.findall("{raml50.xsd}Data/{raml50.xsd}managedObject[ @class= {0}".format(get)):
for man in e.findall("{raml50.xsd}Data/{raml50.xsd}managedObject[ @class= {}".format(get)):
for man in e.findall("{raml50.xsd}Data/{raml50.xsd}managedObject[ @class= \'%s\'" %(get)):
for man in e.findall("{raml50.xsd}Data/{raml50.xsd}managedObject[ @class=  \'{}\'".format(get)):
for man in e.findall("{raml50.xsd}Data/{raml50.xsd}managedObject[ @class=  \'{0}\'".format(get)):

I thought it would be easy, but I'm stumped.
Any ideas on how to get this working?

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