Checking the empty value of a an attribute-CodePudding

I need to check to see if the intent value exists or not and if it doesn't exist, I'd like to have it assigned 'UNASSIGNED'

   for info in data:
        intent = info.getAttribute("intentref")
        
        if (intent) == None:
            intent = 'NOT_ASSIGNED'
          
        utterance = info.firstChild.nodeValue

But it's not working. any idea?

Left side - instead of blank, it should say 'UNASSIGNED'.

CodePudding user response：

I think you can do:

intent= info.get(intentref,'NOT_ASSIGNED')

not sure if it's the same for lxml but using "get" like this in other xml parsers allows you to set a default value if not found

CodePudding user response：

I fixed it by the doing the following:

ntent = info.getAttribute("intentref")

        if (len(intent)) <1:
            intent = 'NOT_ASSIGNED'