Python Minidom - how to iterate through attributes, and get their name and value
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I want to iterate through all attributes of a dom node and get the name and value 

I tried something like this (docs were not very verbose on this so I guessed a little):

    for attr in element.attributes:
        attrName = attr.name
        attrValue = attr.value

1. the for loop doesn't even start
2. how do I get the name and value of the attribute once I get the loop to work?

Loop Error:

    for attr in trx.attributes:
      File "C:\Python32\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 553, in __getitem__
        return self._attrs[attname_or_tuple]
     KeyError: 0

I'm new to Python, be gentle please