#Python code to illustrate parsing of XML files   # importing the required modules   import   csv   import   requests   import   xml.etree.ElementTree   as   ET   def   loadRSS  ():   # url of rss feed   url   =   'http://www.hindustantimes.com/rss/topnews/rssfeed.xml'   # creating HTTP response object from given url   resp   =   requests  .  get  (  url  )   # saving the xml file   with   open  (  'topnewsfeed.xml'     'wb'  )   as   f  :   f  .  write  (  resp  .  content  )   def   parseXML  (  xmlfile  ):   # create element tree object   tree   =   ET  .  parse  (  xmlfile  )   # get root element   root   =   tree  .  getroot  ()   # create empty list for news items   newsitems   =   []   # iterate news items   for   item   in   root  .  findall  (  './channel/item'  ):   # empty news dictionary   news   =   {}   # iterate child elements of item   for   child   in   item  :   # special checking for namespace object content:media   if   child  .  tag   ==   '{https://video.search.yahoo.com/mrss'  :   news  [  'media'  ]   =   child  .  attrib  [  'url'  ]   else  :   news  [  child  .  tag  ]   =   child  .  text  .  encode  (  'utf8'  )   # append news dictionary to news items list   newsitems  .  append  (  news  )   # return news items list   return   newsitems   def   savetoCSV  (  newsitems     filename  ):   # specifying the fields for csv file   fields   =   [  'guid'     'title'     'pubDate'     'description'     'link'     'media'  ]   # writing to csv file   with   open  (  filename     'w'  )   as   csvfile  :   # creating a csv dict writer object   writer   =   csv  .  DictWriter  (  csvfile     fieldnames   =   fields  )   # writing headers (field names)   writer  .  writeheader  ()   # writing data rows   writer  .  writerows  (  newsitems  )   def   main  ():   # load rss from web to update existing xml file   loadRSS  ()   # parse xml file   newsitems   =   parseXML  (  'topnewsfeed.xml'  )   # store news items in a csv file   savetoCSV  (  newsitems     'topnews.csv'  )   if   __name__   ==   '__main__'  :   # calling main function   main  ()