[4suite] [Amara] attribute names that contain hypens

[Uche Ogbuji]

Greg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've run into an issue with attribute names that are hyphenated. I hope
> I'm making a noobie mistake.
> 
> Whenever I try to use an attibute that has a hyphenated name, I get an
> error message:
> 
> SyntaxError: can't assign to operator
> 
> But when I remove the hyphen from my source XML so that the att name in
> the data matches option #2, everything works OK.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

The manual explains that characters that are illegal in Python names are
turned to underscores:

> Option #1
> titles =  data.doc.xml_xpath (u'//title')
> 
> for titleeach in titles:
>     del titleeach.title-type

That would be

del titleeach.title_type

You can always use

del titleeach.xml_remove_child(xml_xpath(u'title-type'))

if you want to use the proper XML name.


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