import sys, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET # Create the root of the ElementTree from file root = ET.parse("thefile").getroot() # Get an iterator for the root node iterator = root.getiterator("Item") # Loop using the iterator # (Please use clear variable names!) for item in iterator: # To find a sub-element with a text tag, use find() old_symbol = item.find("Symbol") # This is how you get its text field text = old_symbol.text # Is 'UPS' in our text field? if 'UPS' in text: # If so, remove the sub-element # remove() takes out nodes, not text item.remove(old_symbol) # Add a new sub-element to the item new_symbol = ET.SubElement(item, "Symbol") # Set its text field to the appropriate thing new_symbol.text = text[0:3]+"2009" # Now get the full tree from the root tree = ET.ElementTree(root) # And write to file! tree.write("out.xml")
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