Python: " AttributeError: Element instance has no attribute 'firstchild' "
Question: I've looked everywhere, but can't seem to find anything that answers my
problem. I'm fairly new to Python, so maybe I am not understanding something
correctly. The error I keep getting, is "AttributeError: Element instance has
no attribute 'firstchild'"

    
    
    # Imports
    import urllib2
    import re
    from xml.dom import minidom
    
    
    def main():
        pass
    
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        main()
    
    
    # Get RSS feed source
    briefingRSS = minidom.parse(urllib2.urlopen('http://rss.briefing.com/Investor/RSS/UpgradesDowngrades.xml'))
    
    # Find each Upgrade and Downgrade listed in XML file
    channel = briefingRSS.getElementsByTagName("channel")[0]
    items = channel.getElementsByTagName("item")
    
    # Get info from each item
    for item in items:
        getTicker = item.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].firstchild.data
        ticker = str(getTicker[1].split("<")[0])
        print ticker
    

Edit: Alright, thank you for pointing out the C in firstchild. But turns out,
the program is spitting out one letter per line. I'm trying to capture a
ticker, which can be up to 5 characters long at times. How do I get it to give
me a full ticker?

Here is a snippet from the current XML for an item:

    
    
    <image>
    <url>http://rss.briefing.com/favicon.ico</url>
    <title>Briefing.com - Upgrades Downgrades Calendar</title>
    <link>
    http://www.briefing.com/Investor/Public/Calendars/UpgradesDowngrades.htm
    </link>
    </image>
    


Answer: The `firstChild` property needs a capital letter 'C' in the middle.

The documentation isn't very clear, because it is written in terms of the DOM
standard and how to map the standard to Python, so it can help just to open up
the `minidom.py` source and see the methods and properties it defines and
uses.

