gather data from an xml file in python

To gather data from an xml file in python, one way is to use the xml.etree.ElementTree library which is included in the standard library. Here is an example code snippet that demonstrates how to extract data from an XML file:


main.py
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

# parse the xml file
tree = ET.parse('example.xml')

# get the root element of the xml
root = tree.getroot()

# iterate through the xml elements and extract relevant data
for child in root:
    # check if the element has a specific tag
    if child.tag == 'person':
        # extract name and age data from the element attributes
        name = child.attrib['name']
        age = child.attrib['age']
        print(f'{name} is {age} years old')
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In this example, the element.attrib dictionary is used to extract data from the element attributes. The if statement is used to check if the element has a specific tag that we are interested in. The print statement prints the extracted data.

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