parsing XML with element tree python 2.7

Question

Why is this not accepting i as a variable in my for loop? here is my code:

import urllib
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

url = 'http://pr4e.dr-chuck.com/tsugi/mod/python-data/data/comments_42.xml'

while True:
    uh = urllib.urlopen(url)
    data = uh.read()
    tree = ET.fromstring(data)

    counts = tree.findall('.//count')
    print "counts[0] = ", counts[0]
    print "counts[0].text = ", counts[0].text
    print "type(int(counts[0].text)) = ", type(int(counts[0].text))
    total = 0
    for i in counts:
        total = total + int(counts[i].text)
    print total
    break

I get the following output:

A sample of the XML I want to parse is here:

Im trying to add up the "count"s in the text.

Isabek Tashiev · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-12 14:44:29Z

1

counts - is an array of elements. Here for i in counts: i will be an element. You can write like that

for elem in counts:
    total += int(elem.text)

or

for index in range(0, len(counts)):
    total += int(counts[index].text)

edited Nov 12, 2015 at 14:44

answered Nov 12, 2015 at 14:39

Isabek Tashiev

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