Extracting Text After Tag In Python's Elementtree

Here is a part of XML: Picture of a cat Extracting the tag is easy. Just do: et = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(our_xml_st

Solution 1:

Elements have a tail attribute -- so instead of element.text, you're asking for element.tail.

>>>import lxml.etree>>>root = lxml.etree.fromstring('''<root><foo>bar</foo>baz</root>''')>>>root[0]
<Element foo at 0x145a3c0>
>>>root[0].tail
'baz'

Or, for your example:

>>>et = lxml.etree.fromstring('''<item><img src="cat.jpg" /> Picture of a cat</item>''')>>>et.find('img').tail
' Picture of a cat'

This also works with plain ElementTree:

>>>import xml.etree.ElementTree>>>xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(...'''<item><img src="cat.jpg" /> Picture of a cat</item>'''...).find('img').tail
' Picture of a cat'