Just another update

Task/XML-XPath/Python/xml-xpath-2.py

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+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+
+xml = open('inventory.xml').read()
+doc = ET.fromstring(xml)
+
+doc = ET.parse('inventory.xml')  # or load it directly
+
+# Note, ElementTree's root is the top level element. So you need ".//" to really start searching from top
+
+# Return first Item
+item1 = doc.find("section/item")  # or ".//item"
+
+# Print each price
+for p in doc.findall("section/item/price"):  # or ".//price"
+    print "{0:0.2f}".format(float(p.text))  # could raise exception on missing text or invalid float() conversion
+
+# list of names
+names = doc.findall("section/item/name")  # or ".//name"

Task/XML-XPath/Python/xml-xpath-3.py

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+from lxml import etree
+
+xml = open('inventory.xml').read()
+doc = etree.fromstring(xml)
+
+doc = etree.parse('inventory.xml')  # or load it directly
+
+# Return first item
+item1 = doc.xpath("//section[1]/item[1]")
+
+# Print each price
+for p in doc.xpath("//price"):
+    print "{0:0.2f}".format(float(p.text))  # could raise exception on missing text or invalid float() conversion
+
+names = doc.xpath("//name")  # list of names