I suggest ElementTree
. There are other compatible implementations of the same API, such as lxml
, and cElementTree
in the Python standard library itself; but, in this context, what they chiefly add is even more speed — the ease of programming part depends on the API, which ElementTree
defines.
First build an Element instance root
from the XML, e.g. with the XML function, or by parsing a file with something like:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
root = ET.parse('thefile.xml').getroot()
Or any of the many other ways shown at ElementTree
. Then do something like:
for type_tag in root.findall('bar/type'):
value = type_tag.get('foobar')
print(value)
Output:
1
2