What library/package to use for parsing XML?

Rob Gaddi rgaddi at highlandtechnology.invalid
Mon Jan 30 18:05:16 EST 2017


On 01/30/2017 02:14 PM, Juan C. wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>> I want to parse some XML data, it's the address book data from the
>> linux program osmo.  The file I want to parse is like this:-
>
> Just like Irmen said, use the default xml.etree.ElementTree, it's
> amazing and very simple to use.
>

And if you get halfway into your project and find ElementTree was 
insufficient, you can switch to lxml without changing practically 
anything you've already written.

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