["python","xml"]
Python xml ElementTree from a string source?

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
If you're using xml.etree.ElementTree.parse to parse from a file, then you can use xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring to get the root Element of the document. Often you don't actually need an ElementTree. See xml.etree.ElementTree