Export placemarks from KML-file

export-placemarks.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import os, sys
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse("filename.kml")

places = list(tree.iter('{http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0}Placemark'))

print '"name", "longitude", "latidude", "elevation"'
for p in places:
        name = p.find('{http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0}name').text
        point = p.find('{http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0}Point')
        coord= point.find('{http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0}coordinates')
        print '%s,' % name, coord.text