Using xpath/xquery from python scripts

Wow, I like the XPath interface so much more than the awkward DOM models that I have used up until now. Look at how it cleans up the code:

from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse
tree = parse('my_file.xml')

# Old: tree.getElementsByTagName('creator')[0].childNodes[0].data
artst = tree.find('/creator').text

Or as another example for processing gps tracks from my watch, I can select all of the tracks with just a:

tree.find('//trk')

Simple. I like it.