Is there a way to turn XML into dictionary and lists?

Question

<things>
    <fruit>apple</fruit>
    <hardware>mouse</hardware>
...
</things>

Turn it into:

{'things':[{'fruit':'apple'}, {'hardware':'mouse'}]}

Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks.

Duplicate. All of these: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bpython%5D+xml+dictionary. Specifically, this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2148119/how-to-convert-a-xml-string-to-a-dictionary-in-python — S.Lott, Feb 05 '10 at 11:02
if you know how to use xpath well, you can process xml as if it is a list, or a dictionary — vtd-xml-author, Feb 05 '10 at 19:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 05 '10 at 09:03

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there's a nice recipe for that here:

another good one is here:

answered Feb 05 '10 at 09:03

user262976

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