How to convert an XML string to a dictionary?

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xmltodict (full disclosure: I wrote it) does exactly that:

xmltodict.parse("""
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<person>
  <name>john</name>
  <age>20</age>
</person>""")
# {u'person': {u'age': u'20', u'name': u'john'}}

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