Installation

pip install xmldict

On most of the systems, you will need the sudo permissions if you are doing a system wide install.

sudo pip install xmldict

Exmaple

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# Converting xml to dictionary >>> xmldict.xml_to_dict(‘’’ … <root> … <persons> … <person> … <name first=”foo” last=”bar” /> … </person> … <person> … <name first=”baz” last=”bar” /> … </person> … </persons> … </root> … ‘’’) {‘root’: {‘persons’: {‘person’: [{‘name’: {‘last’: ‘bar’, ‘first’: ‘foo’}}, {‘name’: {‘last’: ‘bar’, ‘first’: ‘baz’}}]}}}

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# Converting dictionary to xml >>> xmldict.dict_to_xml({‘root’: {‘persons’: {‘person’: [{‘name’: {‘last’: ‘bar’, ‘first’: ‘foo’}}, {‘name’: {‘last’: ‘bar’, ‘first’: ‘baz’}}]}}}) ‘<root><persons><person><name><last>bar</last><first>foo</first></name></person><person><name><last>bar</last><first>baz</first></name></person></persons></root>’

Convert xml to python dictionaries.