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Question

I have built this code to specifically identify a load of .XML files and to extract co-ordinates from those files. Here is my code:

from xml.etree import Element         


        

Answer 1

Maybe you just need to write the file path with \ instead of /:

workspace = "D:\\J040083"

Or, without backslash escaping as a raw string:

workspace = r"D:\J040083"

Answer 2

You need to change the line

tree = ET.parse(workspace)

to

tree = ET.parse(filename)

because workspace is a directory and the parse method takes a filename.