Pete Forman wrote:
> Peter Otten <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> root = etree.fromstring(s)
>> for server in root.xpath("./server"):
>> servername = server.xpath("./name/text()")[0]
>
> When working with lxml I prefer to use this Python idiom.
>
> servername, = server.xpath("./name/text()")
>
> That enforces a single result. The original code will detect a lack of
> results but if the query returns multiple results when only one is
> expected then it silently returns the first.
Good suggestion, and for those who find the trailing comma easy to overlook:
[servername] = server.xpath("./name/text()")
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