Converting ''NodeList' item to int() in Python?

Question

I'm trying to convert a 'NodeList' object to an int() with the following code.

# DEFINE DATA FROM URL
dom = minidom.parse(urllib2.urlopen(url))

# SELECT AMOUNT
amount = dom.getElementsByTagName('amount')

# DEFINE VARIABLE AS INT
amount = int(amount)

When I run it, I get:

TypeError: int() argument must be a string or a number, not 'NodeList'

Thanks in advance for the help.

EDIT: Two example Nodes are:

<DOM Element: amount at 0x10e5c87a0>
<amount currency ="USD">142113</amount>

<DOM Element: amount at 0x10eccfcf8>
<amount currency="USD">140787</amount>

Answer 1

You can use requests and BeautifulSoup:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

page = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, 'lxml')
amounts = soup.select('amount') # A list of amount tags    
for amount in amounts:
    print(int(amount.text))