I am running a program (via py2exe) that is reading some XML files with
xml.minidom. I am getting an error wherein I pull a value from a tag
which (I think) happens to be empty. Thus, it throws this error:
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'data'
Here's the code that creates this problem:
def functionname(fileobject):
try:
xmldoc = minidom.parse(fileobject)
except xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError, AttributeError:
logit = "There is a malformed file: " + fileobject + "\n"
logfile.write(logit)
else:
a = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('date_modified')
try:
b = a[0].firstChild.data
except xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError, AttributeError:
logit = "There is a malformed file: " + fileobject + "\n"
logfile.write(logit)
I am wondering what I have to do to catch this exception - I'm assuming
that the problem is that "a" is an empty object, and so it has not
attributes. Thanks.
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yours,
William
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