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Asked: 2026-06-13T05:05:43+00:00

Is it possible to auto-generate python class objects based on the hierarchical content of

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Is it possible to auto-generate python class objects based on the hierarchical content of an XML file?
Let me explain a bit what I mean. Let’s suppose I have an XML file that contains (for the sake of simplicity) the following:

<breakfast_menu>
   <food>
     <name>Belgian Waffles</name>
     <price>$5.95</price>
     <description>blah blah...etc...</description>
     <calories>650</calories>
   </food>
</breakfast_menu>

I like the way XML presents data and attributes, but I would like to use Python so I’m asking if there is a set of utilities that read the file above and create something like:

class breakfast_menu():
   food = food(self, name="Belgian Waffles", price="$5.95", description="blah blah...etc...", calories=650)

Is this something feasible? Can anyone suggest a way/tool to do that?
Thank you in advance for your consideration.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Parse it with some XML parser (ElementTree for example). Get content from each food tag into a Python dictionary.
    Unpack the dictionary when giving it to the function like this:

    food(**my_dictionary)

    If the dictionary contains something like my_dictionary = {'name':'Belgian Waffles', 'price':'$5.95'}, calling food(**my_dictionary) will be the same as calling food(name = 'Belgian Waffles', price = '$5.95'). For more information, look at Understanding kwargs in Python.

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