Understanding the arguments for SubElement factory in ElementTree

[mirandacascade]

Can the **extra argument in the SubElement() factory in ElementTree be
used to set the text property? Example:

Want the text associated with the <subroot> tag to be xyz.

<root>
<subroot>xyz</subroot>
</root>

rather than:
root = Element('root')
subroot = SubElement(root, 'subroot')
subroot.text = 'xyz'

Was wondering whether this code accomplish that
root = Element('root')
subroot = SubElement(root, 'subroot', text='xyz')

 

[B Mahoney]

Your SubElement call is lacking the attrib argument, but you can't set
text, anyway.

The elementtree source makes it clear, you can only set element attrib
attributes
with SubElement

def SubElement(parent, tag, attrib={}, **extra):
attrib = attrib.copy()
attrib.update(extra)
element = parent.makeelement(tag, attrib)
parent.append(element)
return element

 

[Giovanni Bajo]

<root>
<subroot>xyz</subroot>
</root>

rather than:
root = Element('root')
subroot = SubElement(root, 'subroot')
subroot.text = 'xyz'

Was wondering whether this code accomplish that
root = Element('root')
subroot = SubElement(root, 'subroot', text='xyz')

No, this creates:

<root>
<subroot text="xyz" />
</root>

I believe the text ought to be set in a separate statement.

Giovanni Bajo