Python: Get value with xmltodict

Question

I have an XML-file that looks like this:

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Answer 1

What you are getting is a list of fields where every field is represented by a dict(). Explore this dict (e.g. in Python interactive shell) to narrow down how to get to the value you want.

>>> doc["session"]["docInfo"]["field"][0]
OrderedDict([(u'@name', u'Employee'), (u'@isMandotory', u'True'), ('#text', u'Jake Roberts')])

In order to get to the element value add ["#text"] to the end of the line in the snippet above.