make getting xml into a Python dict easy

I needed to compare 2 xml files to see where they differed and it's not so easy. I think that this module will help.

xmltodict

xmltodict is a Python module that makes working with XML feel like you are working with JSON …

Here is a nice article How to pretty print XML from the command line? that shows a lot of ways to do that, but I really like the one with Python, as it totally solves a problem I was having.

cat SomeXmlDataFileToPrint.xml | python -c 'import sys;import xml.dom …