python xml parser

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

root = ET.fromstring(country_data_as_string)

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

import  xml.dom.minidom
from xml.dom import getChildNodesByName

xdom = xml.dom.minidom.parse("GenericAddressing.xml")
xdoc = xdom.documentElement

from xml.etree.ElementTree import XML, fromstring
myxml = fromstring(text)