Extract attributes and certain tag values from xml using python script -

i want parse xml content , return dictionary contains name attribute , values dictionary. example:

  <ecmaarray>    <number name="xyz1">123.456</number>      <ecmaarray name="xyz2">          <string name="str1">aaa</string>          <number name="num1">55</number>      </ecmaarray>      <strictarray name="xyz3">          <string>aaa</string>          <number>55</number>      </strictarray>   </ecmaarray>   

the output has in dictionary this..

dict:{ 'xyz1': 123.456,         'xyz2': {'str1':'aaa', 'num1': '55'},        'xyz3': ['aaa','55']      } 

can 1 suggest recursive solution ?

assuming situation this:

<strictarray name="xyz4">     <string>aaa</string>     <number name="num1">55</number> </strictarray> 

is not possible, here's sample code using lxml:

from lxml import etree   tree = etree.parse('test.xml')  result = {} element in tree.xpath('/ecmaarray/*'):     name = element.attrib["name"]     text = element.text     childs = element.getchildren()      if not childs:         result[name] = text     else:         child_dict = {}         child_list = []         child in childs:             child_name = child.attrib.get('name')             child_text = child.text             if child_name:                 child_dict[child_name] = child_text             else:                 child_list.append(child_text)          if child_dict:             result[name] = child_dict         else:             result[name] = child_list   print result 

prints:

{'xyz3': ['aaa', '55'],   'xyz2': {'str1': 'aaa', 'num1': '55'},   'xyz1': '123.456'} 

you may want improve code - it's hint on go.

hope helps.