The ElementTree XML API offers a straightforward and user-friendly way to parse and generate XML data in Python. Since it’s part of Python’s standard library, there’s no need for any additional ...

This is a small project to understand how diferent xml parsing python libraries compare to each other. From this it is my hope to obtain a stronger grasp on superior methods and libraries to use when ...

If you do a quick search online for XML parsing in Python, your two most common results are lxml and beautifulsoup. These both work, but using them feels less like opening a dictionary (as with JSON) ...

With xmltodict, each element in an XML document gets converted into a dictionary (specifically an OrderedDictionary), which you then treat basically the same as you would JSON (or any Python ...

The nested namespace of xml.* violates Zen tenet #5 “Flat is better than nested”, and ConfigParser violates PEP 8 naming conventions. This is not news to long time Python programmers, but to newbies ...

My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.