Python, XML-to-DICT. Really simple yet effective

gistfile1.txt

def etree_to_dict(t):
    """
    A simple yet really powerful function for converting XML into a dict,
    Faster than xmltodict
    http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/05/31/converting-between-xml-and-json.html
    :param t:
    :return:
    """
    d = {
        t.tag: {} if t.attrib else None
    }

    children = list(t)

    if children:

        dd = defaultdict(list)

        for dc in map(etree_to_dict, children):
            for k, v in dc.items():
                dd[k].append(v)
        d = {t.tag: {k:v[0] if len(v) == 1 else v for k, v in dd.items()}}

    if t.attrib:

        d[t.tag].update(('@' + k, v) for k, v in t.attrib.items())

    if t.text:

        text = t.text.strip()

        if children or t.attrib:
            if text:
              d[t.tag]['#text'] = text
        else:
            d[t.tag] = text

    return d