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January 25, 2011 20:22
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Convert an lxml.etree node tree into a dict.
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def elem2dict(node): | |
""" | |
Convert an lxml.etree node tree into a dict. | |
""" | |
d = {} | |
for e in node.iterchildren(): | |
key = e.tag.split('}')[1] if '}' in e.tag else e.tag | |
value = e.text if e.text else elem2dict(e) | |
d[key] = value | |
return d |
The function doesn't convert root tag into a dict. So you should care about a root tag outside a recursion if you need it.
for ex. testtest2 will be converted to {a: test1, b: test2} NOT {'root': {a: test1, b: test2}}
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Version with key parsing done using
lxml.etree
'sQName
method