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import ElementTree from everywhere (Python recipe) by Trent Mick
ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/475126/)

effbot's ElementTree module (http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm) is an excellent way to work with XML. It has a lot of incarnations though so distributing code that uses it right now is little bit of a pain. Here is a snippet you might want to use to import one of all the available incarnations -- hopefully the users of your script will have one.

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try:
    import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET # in python >=2.5
except ImportError:
    try:
        import cElementTree as ET # effbot's C module
    except ImportError:
        try:
            import elementtree.ElementTree as ET # effbot's pure Python module
        except ImportError:
            try:
                import lxml.etree as ET # ElementTree API using libxml2
            except ImportError:
                import warnings
                warnings.warn("could not import ElementTree "
                              "(http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm)")
                # Or you might just want to raise an ImportError here.

# Use ET.Element, ET.ElementTree, etc...
Tags: xml