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I suggest ElementTree. There are other compatible implementations of the same API, such as lxml, and cElementTree in the Python standard library itself; but, in this context, what they chiefly add is even more speed -- the ease of programming part depends on the API, which ElementTree defines.

First build an Element instance root from the XML, e.g. with the XML function, or by parsing a file with something like:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET root = ET.parse('thefile.xml').getroot() 

Or any of the many other ways shown at ElementTree. Then do something like:

for type_tag in root.findall('bar/type'): value = type_tag.get('foobar') print(value) 

Output:

1 2 

I suggest ElementTree. There are other compatible implementations of the same API, such as lxml, and cElementTree in the Python standard library itself; but, in this context, what they chiefly add is even more speed -- the ease of programming part depends on the API, which ElementTree defines.

First build an Element instance root from the XML, e.g. with the XML function, or by parsing a file with something like:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET root = ET.parse('thefile.xml').getroot() 

Or any of the many other ways shown at ElementTree. Then do something like:

for type_tag in root.findall('bar/type'): value = type_tag.get('foobar') print(value) 

Output:

1 2 

I suggest ElementTree. There are other compatible implementations of the same API, such as lxml, and cElementTree in the Python standard library itself; but, in this context, what they chiefly add is even more speed -- the ease of programming part depends on the API, which ElementTree defines.

First build an Element instance root from the XML, e.g. with the XML function, or by parsing a file with something like:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET root = ET.parse('thefile.xml').getroot() 

Or any of the many other ways shown at ElementTree. Then do something like:

for type_tag in root.findall('bar/type'): value = type_tag.get('foobar') print(value) 

And similar, usually pretty simple, code patterns.

I suggest ElementTree. There are other compatible implementations of the same API, such as lxml, and cElementTree in the Python standard library itself; but, in this context, what they chiefly add is even more speed -- the ease of programming part depends on the API, which ElementTree defines.

First build an Element instance root from the XML, e.g. with the XML function, or by parsing a file with something like:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET root = ET.parse('thefile.xml').getroot() 

Or any of the many other ways shown at ElementTree. Then do something like:

for type_tag in root.findall('bar/type'): value = type_tag.get('foobar') print(value) 

Output:

1 2 

I suggest ElementTree. There are other compatible implementations of the same API, such as lxml, and cElementTree in the Python standard library itself; but, in this context, what they chiefly add is even more speed -- the ease of programming part depends on the API, which ElementTree defines.

First build an Element instance root from the XML, e.g. with the XML function, or by parsing a file with something like:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET root = ET.parse('thefile.xml').getroot() 

Or any of the many other ways shown at ElementTree. Then do something like:

for type_tag in root.findall('bar/type'): value = type_tag.get('foobar') print(value) 

And similar, usually pretty simple, code patterns.

I suggest ElementTree. There are other compatible implementations of the same API, such as lxml, and cElementTree in the Python standard library itself; but, in this context, what they chiefly add is even more speed -- the ease of programming part depends on the API, which ElementTree defines.

First build an Element instance root from the XML, e.g. with the XML function, or by parsing a file with something like:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET root = ET.parse('thefile.xml').getroot() 

Or any of the many other ways shown at ElementTree. Then do something like:

for type_tag in root.findall('bar/type'): value = type_tag.get('foobar') print(value) 

And similar, usually pretty simple, code patterns.