How to parse XML in Python

Say you have a XML file "myitems.xml" which contains the following string and you want to parse its items

<data>
    <myitems>
        <item name="item1">East</item>
        <item name="item2">West</item>
        <item name="item3">North</item>
        <item name="item4">South</item>
    </myitems>
</data>

The following code parses the xml content and prints the attribute and text values

from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse('myitems.xml')
itemlist = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('item')

# Get attribute value of <item> tag e.g.
for s in itemlist:
    print("Attribute - ", s.attributes['name'].value)

# Get values in <item> tag
for s in itemlist:
    print("Value - ", s.firstChild.nodeValue)

Attribute -  item1
Attribute -  item2
Attribute -  item3
Attribute -  item4
Value -  East
Value -  West
Value -  North
Value -  South