Answers for "how to get the root tag of xml file element tree"

python string to xml

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

root = ET.fromstring(country_data_as_string)

how to open xml file element tree

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse('filename.xml') #this gets the file into a tree structure
tree_root = tree.getroot() #this gives us the root element of the file

python elementtree load from string

from xml.etree.ElementTree import XML, fromstring
myxml = fromstring(text)