Method find

Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py:276–285

Find first matching element by tag name or path. *path* is a string having either an element tag or an XPath, *namespaces* is an optional mapping from namespace prefix to full name. Return the first matching element, or None if no element was found.

(self, path, namespaces=None)

            raise ValueError(f"{subelement!r} not in {self!r}") from None

    def find(self, path, namespaces=None):
        """Find first matching element by tag name or path.

        *path* is a string having either an element tag or an XPath,
        *namespaces* is an optional mapping from namespace prefix to full name.

        Return the first matching element, or None if no element was found.

        """
        return ElementPath.find(self, path, namespaces)

    def findtext(self, path, default=None, namespaces=None):
        """Find text for first matching element by tag name or path.