xmltodict does not return a list for one element

Question

The following Code produces an error, if there is only one \"car\" in \"garage\":

import xmltodict

mydict = xmltodict.parse(xmlstringResults)    
for carsIn         


        

Answer 1

This is of course not an elegant way, but this is what i have done to get the code run (if someone hase the same probleme an found this via google):

import xmltodict

def guaranteed_list(x):
    if not x:
        return []
    elif isinstance(x, list):
        return x
    else:
        return [x]

mydict = xmltodict.parse(xmlstringResults)    
for carsInGarage in guaranteed_list(mydict['garage']['car']):
    # do something...

but i thing i will write my code again and "use XML directly" as one of the comments said.