python - Parse a XML file and convert to Dict -

i need parse xml file , create equivalent dictionary same.

i have gone through previous stack overflow question same.

converting xml dictionary using elementtree

now have xml content follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <data>   <person>     <first>john</first>     <last>smith</last>     <extra>         <details1>             <married>yes</married>             <status>rich</status>         </details1>     </extra>   </person>   <person>     <first>jane</first>     <last>doe</last>         <extra>         <details1>             <married>yes</married>             <status>rich</status>         </details1>         <details2>             <property>yes</property>         </details2>     </extra>   </person> </data> 

it returning output follows:

[  {   "extra": "\n\t\t",   "last": "smith",   "first": "john"  } ] [  {   "extra": "\n\t\t",   "last": "smith",   "first": "john"  },  {   "extra": "\n\t\t",   "last": "doe",   "first": "jane"  } ] 

so need way parse content of child element , return result please 1 let me know way same.

current code:

import json lxml import etree tree= etree.parse("dummy.xml") root = tree.getroot() datadict = [] item in root:     d = {}     elem in item:         d[elem.tag]=elem.text     datadict.append(d)     new_d = json.dumps(datadict, indent=1)     print new_d 

have @ the docs. might want iterate on children this:

[ child.tag child in item.iterchildren() ]