is there a Python equivalent to Perl's XML::Simple?

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You know, something that takes an xml input file and returns a dict, creating keys based on the tag names, and nesting a list of dict's for all the children of each node? If you are familiar with Perl's XML::Simple -- I'm looking for the Python equivalent of that.

I'm tooling around with xml.etree.ElementTree and that will get the job done. But initially I was searching for something that can suck the XML data into a Python dict that I can traverse knowing the tag names.

Aside: Don't bother yelling at me for serializing config data with XML, I already know. If it were up to me, I'd change the format to YAML or JSON. But alas, this legacy system has XML files that I must parse for config data.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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Try Beautiful Soup as described in question Editing XML as a dictionary in python?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Aug 03 '11 at 17:37

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '11 at 14:22

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how about python-simplexml ?

answered Aug 03 '11 at 14:22

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is there a Python equivalent to Perl's XML::Simple?

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