request data from xml in python

To request data from an XML in Python, you first need to make an HTTP request to the URL where the XML file is located. You can use the built-in urllib library to do this. Once you have the XML data, you can parse it using the built-in xml.etree.ElementTree module.

Here's an example of how to request data from an XML in Python:

main.py
import urllib.request
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

url = 'http://example.com/data.xml'
response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
xml_data = response.read()

# Parse the XML data
root = ET.fromstring(xml_data)

# Print the root element tag
print(root.tag)

# Loop through all the child elements of the root element
for child in root:
    # Print the tag and text of each child element
    print(child.tag, child.text)
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In this example, we first make an HTTP request to http://example.com/data.xml using urllib.request.urlopen(). We then read the XML data from the response using response.read().

Next, we parse the XML data using ET.fromstring(), which returns the root element of the XML document.

Once we have the root element, we can loop through its child elements using a for loop, and print the tag and text of each child element using child.tag and child.text, respectively.