Martin Panter added the comment:
Eric: Calling findall("country") does _not_ return grandchidren nor further
descendants. Also, your pseudocode calling findall() with no arguments does not
work, so I am left wondering where you got the wrong impression about
grandchildren. The usual way to get a list of direct children is to call
list(parent):
>>> root = XML('''<data><country name="Leichtenstein">
... <country name="Singapore"><country name="Panama"/></country>
... </country></data>''')
>>> root.findall()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: Required argument 'path' (pos 1) not found
>>> list(root) # List of direct children
[<Element 'country' at 0xb6ebe324>]
>>> root.findall("country") # List of direct <country> children
[<Element 'country' at 0xb6ebe324>]
>>> root.findall(".//country") # List of all <country> descendants
[<Element 'country' at 0xb6ebe324>, <Element 'country' at 0xb6ebe284>, <Element
'country' at 0xb6ebe0cc>]
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