Why that class unintentionally becomes string

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1

Hey,

I have a valid XML Class and that happens:


data = {}
data["info"]={}

    
    for element in xml:
        name = element.find('name').text
        data[element.tag][name]=element #### element.tag is "info"
        print(type(element)) #1
        pass
    
    for element in data["sensor"]:
        print(element) 
        print(type(element)) #2

when i print it (#1) the type is <class ‘xml.etree.ElementTree.Element’>
when i print it (#2) the type is not class anymore its STR

Why and how can i prevent it?

2

please use code tags

thx

3

Anyone, any idea… i use the codetags now!

4

When you data[element.tag][name]=element, you create a new dictionary inside data[element.tag] that contains {name:element}. Thus, when you iterate over data[“sensor”], you only retrieve the keys to that dict (which are strings, as per name = element.find(‘name’).text), so if you want to retrieve the elements, you’d need to do data[“sensor”][element].

5

Use a search prop and store any values, even lists. And use what is stored to define or even use the data. Make sure you don’t draw it out though.

6

Thanks for the hint. I will try it out. Funny… just about to continue work on the addon and wanted to look, if some one replied… Tada… you did :slight_smile: