Stefan Behnel added the comment:
> I don't see any benefit from having this code fail:
>
> from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse
>
> catalog = parse('books.xml')
> for book in catalog:
> print book.get('id')
Why would you expect it to work? And how?
Why would it only iterate over the *children* of the root Element that it
wraps, and not yield the root Element itself, and maybe any preceding or
following processing instructions or comments, the doctype declaration, etc.?
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