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Parsing XML Comments with Python

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Mike Driscoll
Jun 05, 2025
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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup format originally for XML. Some companies use XML as a data serialization format or for configuration. Recently, I needed to learn how to uncomment some lines in an XML file to enable some settings that were defined in the XML.

Fortunately, Python’s xml module provides a way to do this. Let’s find out how!

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