xml parsing using different libraries

gistfile1.py

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def hard():

    # Example 1
    try:
        import twisted
        help(twisted) # (this may not be as hard as I think, though)
    except:
        pass

    # Example 2
    import xml.dom.minidom
    document = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(
        '''<menagerie><cat>Fluffers</cat><cat>Cisco</cat></menagerie>''')
    menagerie = document.childNodes[0]
    for node in menagerie.childNodes:
        if node.childNodes[0].nodeValue== 'Cisco' and node.tagName == 'cat':
            return node


def easy(maybe):

    # Example 1
    try:
        import gevent
        help(gevent)
    except:
        pass

    # Example 2
    import lxml
    menagerie = lxml.etree.fromstring(
        '''<menagerie><cat>Fluffers</cat><cat>Cisco</cat></menagerie>''')
    for pet in menagerie.find('./cat'):
        if pet.text == 'Cisco':
            return pet

print "If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea."
print 'If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.'

Taken from http://artifex.org/~hblanks/talks/2011/pep20_by_example.html