xml2dic.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
##Module that converts the Xml response to dictionary
from lxml import etree


def dictlist(node):
    res = {}
    res[node.tag] = []
    xmltodict(node,res[node.tag])
    reply = {}
    reply[node.tag] =res[node.tag]

    return reply

def xmltodict(node,res):
    rep = {}

    if len(node):
        #n = 0
        for n in list(node):
            rep[node.tag] = []
            value = xmltodict(n,rep[node.tag])
            if len(n):

                value = rep[node.tag]
                res.append({n.tag:value})
            else :

                res.append(rep[node.tag][0])

    else:
        value = {}
        value = node.text
        res.append({node.tag:value})

    return

def main(xml_string):
    tree = etree.fromstring(xml_string)
    res = dictlist(tree)
    return res


if __name__ == '__main__' :
    main()