Xml1

See the docs

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse('country_data.xml')
root = tree.getroot()

root = ET.fromstring(country_data_as_string)

root.tag
root.attrib

for child in root:
    print(child.tag, child.attrib)

root[0][1].text

See example xml below

for neighbor in root.iter('neighbor'): # iterate recursively finding neighbor elements
    print(neighbor.attrib)

for country in root.findall('country'): # direct descendents only
    rank = country.find('rank').text    # first matching
    name = country.get('name')
    print(name, rank)

Example XML

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<data>
    <country name="Liechtenstein">
        <rank>1</rank>
        <year>2008</year>
        <gdppc>141100</gdppc>
        <neighbor name="Austria" direction="E"/>
        <neighbor name="Switzerland" direction="W"/>
    </country>
    <country name="Singapore">
        <rank>4</rank>
        <year>2011</year>
        <gdppc>59900</gdppc>
        <neighbor name="Malaysia" direction="N"/>
    </country>
    <country name="Panama">
        <rank>68</rank>
        <year>2011</year>
        <gdppc>13600</gdppc>
        <neighbor name="Costa Rica" direction="W"/>
        <neighbor name="Colombia" direction="E"/>
    </country>
</data>