Parsing a xml.gz file in python

Question

I have an tar.gz file on my local machine called abc.aXML.gz, which contains many XML files. I want to find some data from these files but don't know how to parse these file using Elementtree and gzip.

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import gzip
document = ET.parse(gzip("abc.aXML.gz"))
root = document.getroot()

Solution

Below Code worked for me, to read and process a zipped xml file.
I have used gzip first to unzip the file and then used ElementTree.

import gzip
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

input = gzip.open('input-xml.gz', 'r')
tree = ET.parse(input)
root = tree.getroot()

print root.tag
print root.attrib

Comments

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Changing the last line to dom = minidom.parseString(content) worked for me