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Extracting Data from XML: The program will prompt for a URL, read the XML data from that URL using urllib and then parse and extract the comment counts from the XML data, compute the sum of the numbers in the file.
from urllib import request
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
url = 'http://python-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_24966.xml'
print ("Retrieving", url)
html = request.urlopen(url)
data = html.read()
print("Retrieved",len(data),"characters")
tree = ET.fromstring(data)
results = tree.findall('comments/comment')
icount=len(results)
isum=0
for result in results:
isum += float(result.find('count').text)
print(icount)
print(isum)
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i am getting error :-

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/shantanusoni/Documents/ImpDoc/shekhar/studie_related/Coding_Culture/Python/python-coursera/example.py", line 2, in
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
File "/Users/shantanusoni/Documents/ImpDoc/shekhar/studie_related/Coding_Culture/Python/python-coursera/xml.py", line 2, in
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xml.etree'; 'xml' is not a package

Plz help me

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