One liner to get valid xml strings

Asked Jun 27 '19 at 22:42

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Is it possible to do the following in one line list-comprehension?

from lxml import etree
valid_xml_strings = []
for xml_string in xml_strings:
    try:
        etree.fromstring(xml_string)
    except etree.XMLSyntaxError:
        continue
    valid_xml_strings.add(xml_string)

edited Jun 27 '19 at 22:47

asked Jun 27 '19 at 22:42

David542

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No, list comprehension syntax does not allow `try-except`, and it's for the better – DeepSpace Jun 27 '19 at 22:44
@DeepSpace is it possible to see if something is valid xml without doing a try/except? Or is that the only way. – David542 Jun 27 '19 at 22:44
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1528237/how-can-i-handle-exceptions-in-a-list-comprehension-in-python – John Gordon Jun 27 '19 at 22:44

One liner to get valid xml strings

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