TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not Element

[Victor Hooi]

Hi,

I'm getting a strange error when I try to run the following:

    for root, dirs, files in os.walk('./'):
        for file in files:
            if file.startswith('ml') and file.endswith('.xml') and 'entity' not in file:
                print(root)
                print(file)
                with open(os.path.join(root, file), 'r') as f:
                    print(f.name)
                    try:
                        tree = etree.parse(f)
                        root = tree.getroot()
                        print(f.name)
                        print(root.tag)
                    except xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError as e:
                        print('Unable to parse file {0} - {1}'.format(f.name, e.message))

The error is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "foo.py", line 275, in <module>
    marketlink_configfiles()
  File "foo.py", line 83, in bar
    with open(os.path.join(root, file), 'r') as f:
  File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 97, in join
    if path[-1] in "/\\":
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not Element

Cheers,
Victor