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I need to extract information from various xml files within a directory. They all have the same structure but might have different amounts of values stored in pair " " /pair. I'm using xmltodict to access the different pair "values" /pair and store them in a dict.
The xml unfortunately looks somethin like this:

<license xmlns:="http://www.example.com">
 <application name="TEST">
 <operation>
 <condition implication="stop" name="module">
 <arguments>
 <pair key="version">1</pair>
 </arguments>
 </condition>
 <condition implication="stop" name="allowed">
 <arguments>
 <pair key="commandName">value1</pair>
 <pair key="commandName">value2</pair>
 <pair key="commandName">value3</pair>
 <pair key="commandName">value4</pair>
 </arguments>
 </condition>
 </operation>
 </application>
</applications>

This is definitely not the best solution but I'm a total beginner and need to make this work. My code looks something like this

if application['@name'] == "Test":
 for pair in application['operation']['condition'][1]['arguments']:
 if pair["@key"]["#text"] == 'value1':
 value1 = 'available'
 if pair["@key"]["#text"] == 'value2':
 value2 = 'available'
....
Test_dict = 'value1': value1, 'value2': value2....

And this is my output:

if pair["@key"]["#text"] == 'value1':

TypeError: string indices must be integers

How can I get this to work?

EDIT:

Me again, still trying to work this one out.

Jonathans Solution works for all scenarios, except for the one where I have one pair value only. for example:

<license xmlns:="http://www.example.com">
 <application name="TEST">
 <operation>
 <condition implication="stop" name="module">
 <arguments>
 <pair key="version">1</pair>
 </arguments>
 </condition>
 <condition implication="stop" name="allowed">
 <arguments>
 <pair key="commandName">value1</pair>
 </arguments>
 </condition>
 </operation>
 </application>
</license>

I still get the same error message.

if pair["#text"] == 'value2': TypeError: string indices must be integers

As long as there is more than one pair value this approach works perfectly fine. Any approach on how to fix this?

You're getting that error because you treat the string value inside pair["@key"] like a dict.

Try using if pair["#text"] == 'value1': and it should work.

The full code that works for me:

import xmltodict

xml = """
 <application name="TEST">
 <operation>
 <condition implication="stop" name="module">
 <arguments>
 <pair key="version">1</pair>
 </arguments>
 </condition>
 <condition implication="stop" name="allowed">
 <arguments>
 <pair key="commandName">value1</pair>
 <pair key="commandName">value2</pair>
 <pair key="commandName">value3</pair>
 <pair key="commandName">value4</pair>
 </arguments>
 </condition>
 </operation>
 </application>
"""

d = xmltodict.parse(xml)

if d['application']['@name'] == "TEST":
 for pair in d['application']['operation']['condition'][1]['arguments']['pair']:
 if pair["#text"] == 'value1':
 value1 = 'available'
 if pair["#text"] == 'value2':
 value2 = 'available'

print(value1, value2)