Read attribute data from an xml in python

Question

I am trying to read data from an xml file from an url using request module in python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
url ="https://sample.com/simple.xml"
response = requests.get(url,auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username,password))
xml_data = et.fromstring(response.text)

The error I am getting is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\myfolder\Artifactory.py", line 156, in <module>
    xml_data = et.fromstring(xml_response.text)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1311, in XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1657, in feed
    self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 8419: ordinal not in range(128)

So i changed the code to xml_data = et.parse(response.text) then the error is :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\myfolder\Artifactory.py", line 156, in <module>
    xml_data = et.parse(xml_response.text)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1182, in parse
    tree.parse(source, parser)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 647, in parse
    source = open(source, "rb")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

After this error the xml data is getting printed please help me in this issue

Nishant Nawarkhede · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-18 07:05:17Z

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et.parse requires file path (not contents).

You need to encode response to utf-8

xml_data = et.fromstring(response.text.encode('utf-8'))

answered Apr 18, 2018 at 7:05

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Sravani Chinta Over a year ago

when i added the above mentioned solution<Element 'manifest' at 0x376fab0>. Is there any difference between both.Both the solutions are working

Bill F Over a year ago

the difference is this is set only for that encoding. the other one sets it for the entire script.

Bill F · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-18 08:18:24Z

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The first attempt seems like an encoding issue with python.

try adding this to your code between your last import and your url variable.

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding("utf8")

edited Apr 18, 2018 at 8:18

answered Apr 18, 2018 at 6:57

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Sravani Chinta Over a year ago

i added and when i printing the result <Element 'manifest' at 0x42bbab0>

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