No element found at the end of the XML file using ElementTree

Question

Python newbie here. I am just practicing extracting certain elements from XML files. I am going through this Datacamp tutorial , and am trying parse the "movies" XML file provided a the beginning of the tutorial.

It looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<collection>
    <genre category="Action">
        <decade years="1980s">
            <movie favorite="True" title="Indiana Jones: The raiders of the lost Ark">
                <format multiple="No">DVD</format>
                <year>1981</year>
                <rating>PG</rating>
                <description>
                'Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones 
                is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the 
                Covenant before the Nazis.'
                </description>
            </movie>
               <movie favorite="True" title="THE KARATE KID">
               <format multiple="Yes">DVD,Online</format>
               <year>1984</year>
               <rating>PG</rating>
               <description>None provided.</description>
            </movie>
            <movie favorite="False" title="Back 2 the Future">
               <format multiple="False">Blu-ray</format>
               <year>1985</year>
               <rating>PG</rating>
               <description>Marty McFly</description>
            </movie>
        </decade>
        <decade years="1990s">
            <movie favorite="False" title="X-Men">
               <format multiple="Yes">dvd, digital</format>
               <year>2000</year>
               <rating>PG-13</rating>
               <description>Two mutants come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team must 
               oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.</description>
            </movie>
            <movie favorite="True" title="Batman Returns">
               <format multiple="No">VHS</format>
               <year>1992</year>
               <rating>PG13</rating>
               <description>NA.</description>
            </movie>
               <movie favorite="False" title="Reservoir Dogs">
               <format multiple="No">Online</format>
               <year>1992</year>
               <rating>R</rating>
               <description>WhAtEvER I Want!!!?!</description>
            </movie>
        </decade>    
    </genre>

    <genre category="Thriller">
        <decade years="1970s">
            <movie favorite="False" title="ALIEN">
                <format multiple="Yes">DVD</format>
                <year>1979</year>
                <rating>R</rating>
                <description>"""""""""</description>
            </movie>
        </decade>
        <decade years="1980s">
            <movie favorite="True" title="Ferris Bueller's Day Off">
                <format multiple="No">DVD</format>
                <year>1986</year>
                <rating>PG13</rating>
                <description>Funny movie about a funny guy</description>
            </movie>
            <movie favorite="FALSE" title="American Psycho">
                <format multiple="No">blue-ray</format>
                <year>2000</year>
                <rating>Unrated</rating>
                <description>psychopathic Bateman</description>
            </movie>
        </decade>
    </genre>

I understand that I must add </collection> at the end in order to parse the file. However, I am still thrown the error: xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: no element found: line 74, column 12

When running the code

import os
import pandas as pd
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse('movies.xml')

Is the last "genre" element closed incorrectly? I'm not sure why I am unable to parse the file. Any help is appreciated - thanks!

Answer 1

Unnecessary os change directory statement after importing packages and prior to parsing XML file.

Code that threw error:

import os
import pandas as pd
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
os.chdir('filepath')
tree = ET.parse('movies.xml')
root = tree.getroot()

Once os.chdir statement was removed, it parsed with no error.