How to parse XML Output with the Splunk Python SDK into a structure that I can use to insert into another system?

[ygkr]

import splunklib.client as client

HOST = "XXXXS"
PORT = XXXX
USERNAME = "admin"
PASSWORD = "XXXXXX"


service = client.connect(
    host=HOST,
    port=PORT,
    username=USERNAME,
    password=PASSWORD)


for app in service.apps:
    print (app.name)
kwargs_export = {"search_mode": "normal"}
searchquery_export = "search sourcetype=db| stats count by 

Priority"
exportsearch_results = service.jobs.export(searchquery_export, 

**kwargs_export)
 # Get the results and display them using the ResultsReader
print (exportsearch_results.read())
#yield {'Priority': exportsearch_results.read()}

Output:

I have attempted to parse the XML output into a structure so that I can use to insert into another system.
I need a structured output with columns of Priority and its corresponding count value.
Is there any way to access values with python?

[Treep]

Have a look at the search/jobs/export endpoint documentation:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.0/RESTREF/RESTsearch#search.2Fjobs.2Fexport

You could use the GET request parameter "output_mode" and set the output mode to json or csv, which both are - in my opinion - way easier to parse into Python-useable structures than XML.

Other than that, you can use one of the many available XML libraries for Python e.g. those mentioned in this Stackoverflow question/answers:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1912434/how-do-i-parse-xml-in-python