python xpath code example

Example 1: how to open xml file element tree

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse('filename.xml') #this gets the file into a tree structure
tree_root = tree.getroot() #this gives us the root element of the file

Example 2: python string to xml

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

root = ET.fromstring(country_data_as_string)