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parsing simple xml data
from urllib.request import urlopen
from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse
# Download the RSS feed and parse it
u = urlopen('http://planet.python.org/rss20.xml')
doc = parse(u)
# Extract and output tags of interest
for item in doc.iterfind('channel/item'):
title = item.findtext('title')
date = item.findtext('pubDate')
link = item.findtext('link')
print(title)
print(date)
print(link)
print()
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