xmltodict does not return a list for one element

Question

The following Code produces an error, if there is only one \"car\" in \"garage\":

import xmltodict

mydict = xmltodict.parse(xmlstringResults)    
for carsIn         


        

Answer 1

This problem is discussed in this issue on Github. The xmltodict package now supports

d = xmltodict.parse(s, force_list={'car'})

Although this still doesn't create an empty list if the field is absent.