pythonxmlalexa-internet

Error when using XML API findall() in with python 2.6

I'm using this code below to retrieve information from the Alexa API, this code works well on Python 2.7 but I have to use Python 2.6 and it gives me an error:

findall() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)

I presume that this method has change in Python 2.7 but I don't know how to make it work in 2.6.

NS_PREFIXES = {
    "alexa": "http://alexa.amazonaws.com/doc/2005-10-05/",
    "awis": "http://awis.amazonaws.com/doc/2005-07-11",
}

tree = api.sites_linking_in(domain + ".eu", count=10, start=0)
alexa_sites_linkin_in = {}
for element in tree.findall('//awis:SitesLinkingIn/awis:Site',NS_PREFIXES):
    alexa_sites_linkin_in.update({
    element.find('awis:Title', NS_PREFIXES).text: element.find('awis:Url', "awis").text})
Solution

  • The api used lxml(ElementTree as backport) for parsing xml. The lxml allowed additional argument - namespace, but ElementTree does not allow. That is problem. So as hotfix I recommend install lxml.