I recently converted a project from using a custom implementation of xml.dom.minidom to using EelemntTree that comes with python2.5+ and found myself wishing for a find(tag_or_path) method that would do so iteratively instead of just on the current elements direct children. This is possible with the code as written; looking_for = None for el in etree.getiterator(tag_or_path): looking_for = el break I have to do this type of action so often in my code that I just decided to grab the python implementation of etree that came with py2.6 and include it with my app and patch in an iter_find method as the instant break for loop is just asking for maintenance issues down the road what I forget why I was breaking on the first loop no matter what.
