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I have the following Python code:

def xml_parsing(file_name, tag_name, source_string_list, target_string_list):
    
    from xml.etree import ElementTree
    with open(file_name, 'rb+') as f:
        tree = ElementTree.parse(f)
        root = tree.getroot()
        element = root.find(tag_name)
        ElementTree.dump(element)

The output of this (variable tag_name is outputParameters) is;

Output:
</outputParameters>
element[0] =  <Element 'folder' at 0x13de8da0>
Attribute None
<outputParameters>
<folder automatic="1" destination="C:\Users\ataneja\ajay\miscellaneous\" extension="*" folderPath="C:\Users\ataneja\ajay\miscellaneous\" id="targetDir" type="bin" upLoadable="RightNow" />
 

 &lt;ReportName&gt;GlobalResults&lt;/ReportName&gt;
 
</outputParameters>

In the above I want to edit the value of "destination". I thought that might be an attribute but it is not, because when I give the following line in the Python code

 print('element.attrib = ', element.attrib)

I get;

Output:
element.attrib =  {}
Attribute None

How do I go about editing the value of destination, it is neither a text not an attribute.

I shall be grateful if someone can help?

I shall be gratly indebted if someone can point me in a direction on how to edit the "destination"

Whether I ask for attributes/text of the tag outputParameters it is returned as none

I got it working. I had to iterate through subelements and then edit the attribute as below

  for subelem in list(element):
            subelem.set('destination', target_string_list[0])
            subelem.set('folderPath', target_string_list[1])