Just to add another possibility, you can use untangle, as it is a simple xml-to-python-object library. Here you have an example:

Installation

pip install untangle

Usage

Your xml file (a little bit changed):

<foo>
   <bar name="bar_name">
      <type foobar="1"/>
   </bar>
</foo>

accessing the attributes with untangle:

import untangle

obj = untangle.parse('/path_to_xml_file/file.xml')

print obj.foo.bar['name']
print obj.foo.bar.type['foobar']

the output will be:

bar_name
1

More information about untangle can be found here.
Also (if you are curious), you can find a list of tools for working with XML and Python here (you will also see that the most common ones were mentioned by previous answers).

Just to add another possibility, you can use untangle, as it is a simple xml-to-python-object library. Here you have an example:

Installation:

pip install untangle

Usage:

Your XML file (a little bit changed):

<foo>
   <bar name="bar_name">
      <type foobar="1"/>
   </bar>
</foo>

Accessing the attributes with untangle:

import untangle

obj = untangle.parse('/path_to_xml_file/file.xml')

print obj.foo.bar['name']
print obj.foo.bar.type['foobar']

The output will be:

bar_name
1

More information about untangle can be found in "untangle".

Also, if you are curious, you can find a list of tools for working with XML and Python in "Python and XML". You will also see that the most common ones were mentioned by previous answers.

Just to add another possibility, you can use untangle, as it is a simple xml-to-python-object library. Here you have an example:

Installation

pip install untangle

Usage

Your xml file (a little bit changed):

<foo>
   <bar name="bar_name">
      <type foobar="1"/>
   </bar>
</foo>

accessing the attributes with untangle:

import untangle

obj = untangle.parse('/home/jesus/e_workspace/tests_again/src/file.xml')

print obj.foo.bar['name']
print obj.foo.bar.type['foobar']

the output will be:

bar_name
1

More information about untangle can be found here.
Also (if you are curious), you can find a list of tools for working with XML and Python here (you will also see that the most common ones were mentioned by previous answers).

Just to add another possibility, you can use untangle, as it is a simple xml-to-python-object library. Here you have an example:

Installation

pip install untangle

Usage

Your xml file (a little bit changed):

<foo>
   <bar name="bar_name">
      <type foobar="1"/>
   </bar>
</foo>

accessing the attributes with untangle:

import untangle

obj = untangle.parse('/path_to_xml_file/file.xml')

print obj.foo.bar['name']
print obj.foo.bar.type['foobar']

the output will be:

bar_name
1

More information about untangle can be found here.
Also (if you are curious), you can find a list of tools for working with XML and Python here (you will also see that the most common ones were mentioned by previous answers).