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copied!<p>I am writing some code that uses the <code>Element.find()</code> method from Python's <code>xml.etree.ElementTree</code> module. However, I am finding that as soon as I start using <code>str.replace()</code>, Python thereafter interprets my calls to <code>object.find()</code> as <code>str.find()</code> rather than <code>Element.find()</code>.</p> <p>I need my code to grab the text from various <code>Element</code> objects from an XML file, and in some cases I need to modify it with <code>str</code> methods. How can I do this without changing how the interpreter interprets <code>object.find()</code>? Here my code:</p> <pre><code>import xml.etree.ElementTree as xml import re import json pattern = re.compile('[a-z,0-9,-]+') c_pattern = re.compile('\[caption[^\]]+\]') c2_pattern = re.compile('\[/caption\]') tree = xml.parse('file.xml') root = tree.getroot() for item in root.iter('item'): if item.find('{http://wordpress.org/export/1.2/}post_type').text == 'post': t = item.find('{http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/}encoded').text print item.find try: t = t.encode('utf-8') o_cap = re.findall(c_pattern,t) e_cap = re.findall(c2_pattern,t) for item in o_cap: t = t.replace(item,'') for item in e_cap: t = t.replace(item,'') except: t = 'None' print item.find title = item.find('title').text </code></pre> <p>The first <code>print</code> statement returns <code><bound method Element.find of <Element 'item' at 0x2a7a7d0>></code>, while the second returns <code><built-in method find of str object at 0x2b56e00></code>.</p> <p>I've tried subclassing <code>Element</code>, but I don't know how to make the <code>Element</code> nodes in my XML file become objects of the new subclass. I've also tried simply defining a new method that refers to the <code>Element.find()</code> method, but when I tried to use it the interpreter simply told me that an <code>Element</code> object didn't have a method by the name of my user-defined one.</p> <p>Another way I've thought of is some kind of </p> <pre><code>from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element.find() as Element.some_other_name() </code></pre> <p>but that doesn't work (I've tried a bunch of syntactic variations and they don't work either). Does anyone know what I can/should do to get around this issue?</p>

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