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David Mertz's gnosis utilities include the module gnosis.xml.objectify, which makes parsing XML in python as simple as could be. from gnosis.xml import objectify xmltext = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root><first canned="true" yummy="false">spam</first><second>egg</second></root>""" inst = objectify.make_instance(xmltext) print "first:", inst.first.PCDATA print "  canned:", inst.first.canned print "  yummy:", inst.first.yummy print "second:", inst.second.PCDATA Output: first: spam   canned: true   [...]