untangle
- Converts XML to a Python object.
- Siblings with similar names are grouped into a list.
- Children can be accessed with
parent.child, attributes withelement['attribute']. - You can call the
parse()method with a filename, an URL or an XML string. - Substitutes
-,.and:with_<foobar><foo-bar/></foobar>can be accessed withfoobar.foo_bar,<foo.bar.baz/>can be accessed withfoo_bar_bazand<foo:bar><foo:baz/></foo:bar>can be accessed withfoo_bar.foo_baz - Works with Python 2.7 and 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and pypy
Installation
With pip:
pip install untangle
With conda:
conda install -c conda-forge untangle
Conda feedstock maintained by @htenkanen. Issues and questions about conda-forge packaging / installation can be done here.
Usage
(See and run examples.py or this blog post: Read XML painlessly for more info)
import untangle
obj = untangle.parse(resource)
resource can be:
- a URL
- a filename
- an XML string
Running the above code and passing this XML:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<child name="child1"/>
</root>
allows it to be navigated from the untangled object like this:
obj.root.child['name'] # u'child1'
Changelog
see CHANGELOG.md
