Python ElementTree parsing unbound prefix error

Question

I am learning ElementTree in python. Everything seems fine except when I try to parse the xml file with prefix:

test.xml:

Answer 1

See if this works:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

xml_file = "test.xml"

with open(xml_file, "r", encoding="utf8") as f:
    contents = f.read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(contents, "xml")

    items = soup.find_all("country")
    print (items)

The above will produce an array which you can then manipulate to achieve your aim (e.g. remove html tags etc.):

[
, 
, 
]