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I'm about 98% done building an app for parsing a certain network vendor's XML dumps, and need some help with group objects I know I should have used etree, but ...

Python was created in 1991 by programmer Guido van Rossum, who named it for the British comedy series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” It was built to be easy to use but also powerful enough for a ...