1 :mod:`xml.etree` --- The ElementTree API for XML

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     4 .. module:: xml.etree

     5    :synopsis: Package containing common ElementTree modules.

     6 .. moduleauthor:: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>

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     9 .. versionadded:: 2.5

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    11 The ElementTree package is a simple, efficient, and quite popular  library for

    12 XML manipulation in Python.    The :mod:`xml.etree` package contains the most

    13 common components  from the ElementTree API library.  In the current release,

    14 this package contains the :mod:`ElementTree`,  :mod:`ElementPath`, and

    15 :mod:`ElementInclude` modules from the full  ElementTree distribution.

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    17 .. XXX To be continued!

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    20 .. seealso::

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    22    `ElementTree Overview <http://effbot.org/tag/elementtree>`_

    23       The home page for :mod:`ElementTree`.  This includes links  to additional

    24       documentation, alternative implementations, and  other add-ons.