xml config file to python object

[Thomas Guettler]

Hi!

What is the easiest way to parse a xml config file to a
python object.

I would like to parse
<myconfig>
 <foo>2</foo>
 <bar>sun</bar>
 <bar>moon</bar>
</myconfig>

to this:
obj={'myconfig': [
      { 'foo' : '2' }
      { 'bar' : ['sun', 'moon']}
      ]
     }

I did it this weekend with a sax parser.

Is there a way to pickle (serialize) any python object
to xml and back?

After using the sax parser I asked myself why not use
a python file for the configuration? It is much easier.

 thomas