maci.xmlloaddict

loads xml data to dict from a file

loading a file

Loads xml file data, and returns data as a dictionary.

maci.xmlloaddict -> dict[str, Any]

Basic Example of loading a xml file using default positional parameter

data = maci.xmlloaddict('mydata.xml')

In this example, we simply load xml data from a file using the xmlloaddict function and pass a string of the filepath to the file as an argument to the function to load the xml data, and assign the returned data to a variable.

Access data as you normally would with a dictionary in python.

Note: All values in a xml file are returned as strings.

partner functions

Functions that are related for xml as dict

maci.xmlloadstrdict -> Loads xml data from a string as dict maci.xmldumpdict -> Dumps xml data to a file from dict maci.xmldumpstrdict -> Dumps xml data to a string from dict

parameters & arguments

Describes all parameter functionality and accepted data types

filename: str | Path

First and only required positional argument. Accepts strings and Path objects

Use this parameter to point to your filepath

This function uses the xmltodict library installed as a dependency from pypi for its underlying functionality. For more information on xmltodict, visit: https://pypi.org/project/xmltodict/

Security awareness: It is important to evaluate handling XML data carefully as there are known vulnerabilities in dealing with XML data. Please refer to the official python documentation.