Python xml ElementTree from a string source

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The ElementTree parse reads from a file  how can I use this if I already have the XML data in a string   Maybe I am missing something here  but there must be a way to use the ElementTree without writing out the string to a file and reading it again   xml etree elementtree

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If you re using xml etree ElementTree parse to parse from a file  then you can use xml etree ElementTree fromstring to parse from text   See xml etree ElementTree

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You need the xml etree ElementTree fromstring text   from xml etree ElementTree import XML  fromstring myxml   fromstring text

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io StringIO is another option for getting XML into xml etree ElementTree   import io f   io StringIO xmlstring  tree   ET parse f  root   tree getroot     Hovever  it does not affect the XML declaration one would assume to be in tree  although that s needed for ElementTree write     See How to write XML declaration using xml etree ElementTree

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You can parse the text as a string  which creates an Element  and create an ElementTree using that Element   import xml etree ElementTree as ET tree   ET ElementTree ET fromstring xmlstring     I just came across this issue and the documentation  while complete  is not very straightforward on the difference in usage between the parse   and fromstring   methods

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