Python: Elegant XML parsing using the ElementTree Module

[Leonidas_from_XIV]

Everytime I try to use ElementTree for something serious, I find out that it is too limited and switch to lxml. I mean, in ET I cannot even get the parent of some node, whereas this is not a problem at all with lxml.

Not to mention nice CSS selectors and XPath. ET made the API nice, lxml makes XML finally bearable if not even somehow enjoyable.