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How can i convert an xml file into JSON using python?

I have an XML file which I want to convert into JSON file using python, but its nt working out for me.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<note>
    <to>Tove</to>
    <from>Jani</from>
    <heading>Reminder</heading>
    <body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
</note>

The above XML file I am parsing using ElementTree and giving it to Simplejson to serialize like this:

from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import simplejson

tree = ET.parse(Xml_file_path)
simplejson.dumps(tree)

It gives me an error: TypeError: xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree object at 0x00C49DD0 is not JSON serializable.

Solution

  • This is probably what you are looking for:

    https://github.com/mutaku/xml2json

    import xml2json

s = '''<?xml version="1.0"?>
<note>
   <to>Tove</to>
   <from>Jani</from>
   <heading>Reminder</heading>
   <body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
</note>'''
print xml2json.xml2json(s)