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The module I've been writing works finestkind with the test data file, but totally moofs on the live data from flickrapi. After days of frustration (see, I DO have a lot of nothing to do!) I think I found the problem, but I don't know the fix for it. <ul> <li>Internal test data returns a type() of: <code><type 'str'></code> </li> <li>External test data returns a type() of: <code><type 'str'></code> ## opening & reading external XML</li> <li>Live data returns a type() of: <code><class 'xml.etree.ElementTree.Element'></code></li> </ul> Beyond this point in the module, I use objectify. Objectify parses <code><type 'str'></code> just fine, but it will not read the etree elements. I think I need to convert the class 'xml.etree.ElementTree.Element' to str(), but haven't sussed that out yet. The error I get from objectify.fromstring() is: <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Mirc\Python\Temp Files\test_lxml_2.py", line 101, in <module> Grp = objectify.fromstring(flickr.groups_getInfo(group_id=gid)) File "lxml.objectify.pyx", line 1791, in lxml.objectify.fromstring (src\lxml\lxml.objectify.c:20904) File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2994, in lxml.etree.fromstring (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:63296) File "parser.pxi", line 1614, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:93607) ValueError: can only parse strings </code></pre> Please help before the boss turns loose those damn flying monkeys again!!! <pre><code>import fileinput from lxml import html, etree, objectify import re import time import flickrapi if '@N' in gid: try: if tst: Grp = objectify.fromstring(test_data) else: Grp = objectify.fromstring(flickr.groups_getInfo(group_id=gid)) fErr = '' mn = Grp.xpath(u'//group')[0].attrib res = Grp.xpath(u'//restrictions')[0].attrib root = Grp.group gNSID = gid gAlias = "" err_tst = getattr(root, "not-there", "Error OK") gName = getattr(root, "name", "") Images = getattr(root, 'pool_count', (-1)) Mbr = getattr(root, "members", (-1)) </code></pre>
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