[Tutor] Basic ElementTree - another question

[Don Jennings]

> On Feb 25, 2020, at 12:45 AM, Phil <phillor9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 25/2/20 1:00 pm, Don Jennings wrote:
>>> On Feb 24, 2020, at 7:54 PM, Phil <phillor9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> <cut>
> 
>>> This is what I want to achieve:
>>> 
>>>   <wpt lat="-32.506533000" lon="137.740017000">
>>>     <name>1</name>
>>>     <cmt>1</cmt>
>>>     <desc>1</desc>
>>>   </wpt>
>>> 
>>> Hi, Phil. When you add keyword arguments (e.g. lat and lon), those become attributes in the resulting start-tag(s). Instead, assign the value to the text attribute of the element:
>>> 
>>>>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
>>>>> root = ET.Element("root")
>>>>> child = ET.SubElement(root, "child", attr="some attribute")
>>>>> child.text = “content"
>>>>> ET.tostring(root)
>> b'<root><child attr="some attribute">content</child></root>’
> 
> Thanks Don, I appreciate your reply but after experimenting with what you have provided I still cannot get the result that I need. Would it be possible for you to provide code for the two lines that start with "<wpt lat=" and the next line "<name>1</name>"? Hopefully that will enable me to proceed with this section of the project.

Please paste the code which you’ve tried, so we can see what’s happening, thanks.

Best,
Don