I am using urllib and ElementTree to parse XML API calls from pubmed.
An example of this is:
#Imports Modules that can send requests to URLs
#Python Version 3.4 Using IEP (Interactive Editor for Python) as IDE
import urllib.request
import urllib.parse
import re
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from urllib import request
#Obtain API Call and assign Element Object to Root
id_request = urllib.request.urlopen('http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=1757056')
id_pubmed = id_request.read()
root = ET.fromstring(id_pubmed)
I now have been able to use Element Tree to import the data to the object root from ET.fromstring. My issue now, is that I am having trouble finding interesting elements from this object.
I am referring to: https://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html and my XML format looks like: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=1757056
I have tried:
#Parse Attempts. Nothing returned.
for author in root.iter('Author'):
print (author.attrib)
As well as
#No Return for author
for author in root.findall('Id'):
author = author.find('author').text
print (author)