getiterator(tag=None) Deprecated since version 3.2: Use method Element.iter() instead.

getchildren() Deprecated since version 3.2: Use list(elem) or iteration.

get(key, default=None) Gets the element attribute named key. Returns the attribute value, or default if the attribute was not found.

findtext(match, default=None, namespaces=None) Finds text for the first subelement matching match. match may be a tag name or a path. Returns the text content of the first matching element, or default if no element was found. Note that if the matching element has no text content an empty string is returned. namespaces is an optional mapping from namespace prefix to full name.

findall(match, namespaces=None) Finds all matching subelements, by tag name or path. Returns a list containing all matching elements in document order. namespaces is an optional mapping from namespace prefix to full name.

find(match, namespaces=None) Finds the first subelement matching match. match may be a tag name or a path. Returns an element instance or None. namespaces is an optional mapping from namespace prefix to full name.

extend(subelements) Appends subelements from a sequence object with zero or more elements. Raises TypeError if a subelement is not an Element. New in version 3.2.

clear() Resets an element. This function removes all subelements, clears all attributes, and sets the text and tail attributes to None.

attrib A dictionary containing the element’s attributes. Note that while the attrib value is always a real mutable Python dictionary, an ElementTree implementation may choose to use another internal representation, and create the dictionary only if someone asks for it. To take advantage of such implementations, use the dictionary methods below whenever possible.

append(subelement) Adds the element subelement to the end of this element’s internal list of subelements. Raises TypeError if subelement is not an Element.