I want to find a way to get all the sub-elements of an element tree like the way ElementTree.getchildren()
does, since getchildren()
is deprecated since Python version 2.7.
I don’t want to use it anymore, though I can still use it currently.
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Answer
All sub-elements (descendants) of elem
:
all_descendants = list(elem.iter())
A more complete example:
>>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET >>> a = ET.Element('a') >>> b = ET.SubElement(a, 'b') >>> c = ET.SubElement(a, 'c') >>> d = ET.SubElement(a, 'd') >>> e = ET.SubElement(b, 'e') >>> f = ET.SubElement(d, 'f') >>> g = ET.SubElement(d, 'g') >>> [elem.tag for elem in a.iter()] ['a', 'b', 'e', 'c', 'd', 'f', 'g']
To exclude the root itself:
>>> [elem.tag for elem in a.iter() if elem is not a] ['b', 'e', 'c', 'd', 'f', 'g']