untangle

Documentation

• Converts XML to a Python object.
• Siblings with similar names are grouped into a list.
• Children can be accessed with parent.child, attributes with element['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 with foobar.foo_bar, <foo.bar.baz/> can be accessed with foo_bar_baz and <foo:bar><foo:baz/></foo:bar> can be accessed with foo_bar.foo_baz
• Works with Python 2.4-3.2 and pypy

Installation

pip install untangle

OR

try the latest .deb

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

1.1.0

• dir support for untangled objects
• code cleanups

1.0.0

• first official release