[issue6655] etree iterative find[text]

[Dj Gilcrease]

New submission from Dj Gilcrease <digitalxero at gmail.com>:

I recently converted a project from using a custom  implementation of 
xml.dom.minidom to using EelemntTree that comes with python2.5+ and 
found myself wishing for a find(tag_or_path) method that would do so iteratively instead of just on the current elements direct children. 
This is possible with the code as written;

looking_for = None
for el in etree.getiterator(tag_or_path):
    looking_for = el
    break

I have to do this type of action so often in my code that I just decided 
to grab the python implementation of etree that came with py2.6 and 
include it with my app and patch in an iter_find method as the instant 
break for loop is just asking for maintenance issues down the road what 
I forget why I was breaking on the first loop no matter what.

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components: XML
files: ElementTree.py.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 91348
nosy: Digitalxero
severity: normal
status: open
title: etree iterative find[text]
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14663/ElementTree.py.patch

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