ElementTree instance has no attribute 'fromstring'. So, what I did wrong?

Question

I'm trying open and parse some html. So far, it was ok, I'm able to open the source and print it for example. But when it comes to parsing I'm stuck with "ElementTree instance has no attribute 'fromstring'"

this is my Django view.py code:

from django.template import loader, Context
from django.http import HttpResponse
import urllib
from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree

def transform (request):
  opener = urllib.FancyURLopener({})
  f = opener.open("http://www.google.com/")
  r = f.read()
  f.close()
  tree = ElementTree()
  tree.fromstring(r)
  p = tree.find("body/h1")
  t = loader.get_template("transform.html")
  c = Context({'neco': p })
  return HttpResponse(t.render(c))

Django Version: 1.2.4 Python Version: 2.6.5

Do anyone have some idea, please?

Answer 1

Your import statement is wrong... fromstring is a free function in the xml.etree.ElementTree module, not a method of the class xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree:

from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree
...
tree = etree.fromstring(r)