I am new to element tree,here i am trying to find the number of elements in the element tree.
from lxml import etree
root = etree.parse(open("file.xml",'r'))
Find all the target elements (there are some ways to do this), and then use built-in function
len() to get the count. For example, if you mean to count only direct child elements of root :
from lxml import etree doc = etree.parse("file.xml") root = doc.getroot() result = len(root.getchildren())
or, if you mean to count all elements within root element :
result = len(root.xpath(".//*"))