xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring()

xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring() is a Python function in the XML Module category. Parses XML from a string and returns an Element. The syntax is xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(text, parser=None). Returns: Element object. A typical example: root = ET.fromstring("") root.tag # "root" root[0].tag # "item". A close sibling is xml.etree.ElementTree.parse(), which parses an XML file and returns an ElementTree object. A close sibling is xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring(), which serializes an Element to bytes (XML string). A close sibling is xml.etree.ElementTree.Element(), which creates a new XML element with the given tag and attributes. A close sibling is xml.etree.ElementTree.SubElement(), which creates a new XML element as a child of the given parent. More about this category: XML processing — ElementTree, parse, fromstring, tostring. Related XML Module entries: xml.etree.ElementTree.parse(), xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring(), xml.etree.ElementTree.Element(), xml.etree.ElementTree.SubElement(), Element.find(), Element.findall(). This page is part of the free Python Reference documentation covering 978+ functions, methods, and modules with examples and parameter details.