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The output from all the example programs from PyMOTW has been generated with Python 2.7.8, unless otherwise noted. Some of the features described here may not be available in earlier versions of Python.

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xml.etree.ElementTree – XML Manipulation API¶

Purpose:	Generate and parse XML documents
Python Version:	2.5 and later

The ElementTree library was contributed to the standard library by Fredrick Lundh. It includes tools for parsing XML using event-based and document-based APIs, searching parsed documents with XPath expressions, and creating new or modifying existing documents.

Note

All of the examples in this section use the Python implementation of ElementTree for simplicity, but there is also a C implementation in xml.etree.cElementTree.