Parse all the xml files in a directory one by one using ElementTree

elementtree, parsing, python, xml

Solution

Just create a loop over `os.listdir()`:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import os

path = '/path/to/directory'
for filename in os.listdir(path):
    if not filename.endswith('.xml'): continue
    fullname = os.path.join(path, filename)
    tree = ET.parse(fullname)

Problem

I'm parsing XML in python by ElementTree ``` import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse('try.xml') root = tree.getroot() ``` I wish to parse all the 'xml' files in a given directory. The user should enter only the directory name and I should be able to loop through all the files in directory and parse them one by one. Can someone tell me the approach. I'm using Linux.

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