轉載自：http://www.cnblogs.com/alex3714/articles/5161349.html

XML處理模塊：

ml是實現不同語言或程序之間進行數據交換的協議，跟json差不多，但json使用起來更簡單，不過，古時候，在json還沒誕生的黑暗年代，大家只能選擇用xml呀，至今很多傳統公司如金融行業的很多系統的接口還主要是xml。

xml的格式如下，就是通過<>節點來區別數據結構的:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<data>
    <country name="Liechtenstein">
        <rank
 
 updated="yes">2</rank>
        <year>2008</year>
        <gdppc>141100</gdppc>
        <neighbor name="Austria" direction="E"/>
        <neighbor name="Switzerland" direction="W"/>
    </country>
    <country name="Singapore">
        <rank updated=
 
"yes">5</rank>
        <year>2011</year>
        <gdppc>59900</gdppc>
        <neighbor name="Malaysia" direction="N"/>
    </country>
    <country name="Panama">
        <rank updated="yes">69</rank>
        <year>2011</year>
        <gdppc>
 
13600</gdppc>
        <neighbor name="Costa Rica" direction="W"/>
        <neighbor name="Colombia" direction="E"/>
    </country>
</data>

xml協議在各個語言裏的都 是支持的，在python中可以用以下模塊操作xml:

遍歷xml文檔

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse("test.xml")
root = tree.getroot()
print(root.tag)


#遍歷xml文檔
for child in root:
    print(child.tag, child.attrib)
    for i in child:
        print(i.tag, i.text)

#只遍歷year節點
for node in root.iter(‘year‘):
    print(node.tag,node.text)

修改和刪除xml文檔的內容

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse("test.xml")
root = tree.getroot()

# 修改
for node in root.iter(‘year‘):
    new_year = int(node.text) + 1
    node.text = str(new_year)
    node.set("updated", "yes")

tree.write("test1.xml")

# 刪除node
for country in root.findall(‘country‘):
    rank = int(country.find(‘rank‘).text)
    if rank > 50:
        root.remove(country)

tree.write("test2.xml")

創建xml文檔

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

new_xml = ET.Element("namelist")
name = ET.SubElement(new_xml, "name", attrib={"enrolled": "yes"})
age = ET.SubElement(name, "age", attrib={"checked": "no"})
sex = ET.SubElement(name, "sex")
sex.text = ‘33‘
name2 = ET.SubElement(new_xml, "name", attrib={"enrolled": "no"})
age = ET.SubElement(name2, "age")
age.text = ‘19‘

et = ET.ElementTree(new_xml)  # 生成文檔對象
et.write("test.xml", encoding="utf-8", xml_declaration=True)

ET.dump(new_xml)  # 打印生成的格式

Python基礎知識之xml模塊