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Parsing an API XML Response Data
import requests
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
r = requests.get('https://www.washingtonpost.com/arcio/news-sitemap/')
print(r.content)
xmlDict = {}
root = ET.fromstring(r.content)
for child in root.iter('*'):
print(child.tag)
for sitemap in root:
children = sitemap.getchildren()
xmlDict[children[0].text] = children[1].text
print (xmlDict)
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for sitemap in root:    
    children = sitemap.getchildren()

getchildren() is deprecated according to documentation.

The recommended is now list(sitemap)

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