Today i found a pretty nice way how to deal with a XML files in Python. More on it you can read here: module-xml.dom.minidom Below is a very base sample:

from xml.dom import minidom

xmldoc = minidom.parse(<file name>)
itemlist = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName(<name to look for>)

for record in itemlist:
    print record.attributes[<attribute name>].value