xml

What it is good for?

Parse XML files.

The xml module contains several XML parsers. They produce a tree of DOM objects for each tag that can be searched and allow access to attributes.

Installed with Python by default

yes

Example

Sample XML data:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<actor_list>
<actor name="Hamlet">the Prince of Denmark</actor>
<actor name="Polonius">Ophelias father</actor>
</actor_list>

Read an XML file and extract content from tags:

from xml.dom.minidom import parse
document = parse('hamlet.xml')
actors = document.getElementsByTagName("actor")
for act in actors:
    name = act.getAttribute('name')
    for node in act.childNodes:
        if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
            print("{} - {}".format(name, node.data))
Hamlet - the Prince of Denmark
Polonius - Ophelias father

Where to learn more?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.html