Um ein neues Attribut-Tag fügen Sie einfach den neuen Tag anhängen:
from xml.etree import cElementTree as et
x = """<ID_List>
<Samples>
<Sample>
<Attribute Name="SampleID" Value="0000000"/>
<Attribute Name="ListNumber" Value="0000000"/>
<Attribute Name="TestID" Value="ABCDEFGHIJK"/>
</Sample>
</Samples>
</ID_List>"""
xml = et.fromstring(x)
tag = xml.find(".//Samples/Sample")
new = et.Element("Attribute", dict(Name="Foo", Value="12345"))
tag.append(new)
print(et.tostring(xml))
Welche würden Sie geben:
<ID_List>
<Samples>
<Sample>
<Attribute Name="SampleID" Value="0000000" />
<Attribute Name="ListNumber" Value="0000000" />
<Attribute Name="TestID" Value="ABCDEFGHIJK" />
<Attribute Name="Foo" Value="12345" />
</Sample>
</Samples>
</ID_List>
zu Aktualisieren Sie die Datei:
In [4]: cat test.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ID_List>
<Samples>
<Sample>
<Attribute Name="SampleID" Value="0000000"/>
<Attribute Name="ListNumber" Value="0000000"/>
<Attribute Name="TestID" Value="ABCDEFGHIJK"/>
</Sample>
</Samples>
</ID_List>
In [5]: from xml.etree import cElementTree as et
In [6]: xml = et.parse("test.xml")
In [7]: tag = xml.find(".//Samples/Sample")
In [8]: tag.append(et.Element("Attrbute",{"Name":"Foo","Value":"12345"}))
In [9]: xml.write("test.xml")
In [10]: cat test.xml
<ID_List>
<Samples>
<Sample>
<Attribute Name="SampleID" Value="0000000" />
<Attribute Name="ListNumber" Value="0000000" />
<Attribute Name="TestID" Value="ABCDEFGHIJK" />
<Attrbute Name="Foo" Value="12345" /></Sample>
</Samples>
</ID_List>
was ist Ihre erwartete Ausgabe? –