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    <p>I am trying to use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse responses from eBay finding API, findItemsByProduct. After lengthy trial and error, I came up with this code which prints some data:</p> <pre><code>import urllib from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET appID = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' isbn = '3868731342' namespace = '{http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/services}' url = 'http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1?' \ + 'OPERATION-NAME=findItemsByProduct' \ + '&amp;SERVICE-VERSION=1.0.0' \ + '&amp;GLOBAL-ID=EBAY-DE' \ + '&amp;SECURITY-APPNAME=' + appID \ + '&amp;RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT=XML' \ + '&amp;REST-PAYLOAD' \ + '&amp;productId.@type=ISBN&amp;productId=' + isbn root = ET.parse(urllib.urlopen(url)).getroot() for parts in root: if parts.tag == (namespace + 'searchResult'): for item in list(parts): for a in list(item): if a.tag == (namespace + 'itemId'): print 'itemId: ' + a.text if a.tag == (namespace + 'title'): print 'title: ' + a.text </code></pre> <p>But that seems not very elegant, how can I get the 'itemId' and 'title' without looping over all attributes and checking if it is the one I want? I tried using things like <code>.get(namespace + 'itemId')</code> and <code>.find(namespace + 'itemId')</code> and <code>.attrib.get(namespace + 'itemId')</code> but nothing really worked.</p> <p>Can someone maybe show me how to do this using some python wrapper for this API? I saw <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/easyBay" rel="nofollow">easyBay</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ebay-sdk-python/" rel="nofollow">ebay-sdk-python</a> and <a href="http://ebaydeveloper.typepad.com/pyebay.html" rel="nofollow">pyeBay</a> but I didn't manage to get any of them to do what I want. Is there any eBay python API which is worthwhile to use for this?</p>
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