Using XPath in ElementTree

Question

My XML file looks like the following:

Answer 1

from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse("output.xml")
namespace = tree.getroot().tag[1:].split("}")[0]
amount = tree.find(".//{%s}Amount" % namespace).text

Also, consider using lxml. It's way faster.

from lxml import ElementTree as ET